At 01:08 AM 3/1/2004 +0000 Robert J. Chassell wrote:
>A question at hand is whether Iran, ruled by Shi'ite Moslems, is
>gaining power amongst its co-religionists in Iraq?
This strikes me as having vestiges of xenophobic racism.....
Shias are the majority religious denomination in Iraq. The US must
consider a government dominated by Iraqi Shias to not necessarily be a bad
thing. It is what our principles demand.
> If so, the second
>question is whether this is in part a consequence of an Iranian
>intelligence operation against the US government that succeeded for
>the Iranians?
And this is a conspiracy theory worth of LBJ killing JFK, Elvis working a
grocery store in Minneapolis, and NASA faking the moon landing.
Let us consider the facts:
1) Saddam Hussein had WMD's, at least as of 1991. We saw him *use* them.
We also had the IAEA uncover a highly advanced nuclear weapons program
that was estimated to be a mere one year away from fruition.
2) Saddam Hussein signed a cease fire in 1991 requiring him to verifiably
dismantle all of his chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons programs.
3) Saddam Hussein spent the next 12 years systemtatically frustrating all
such efforts to dismantle those programs, and great cost and expense to
himself.
If believing that Iraq had WMD's was the product of an Iranian conspiracy,
then this was surely the easiest conspiracy plot ever hatched.
JDG
_______________________________________________________
John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03
_______________________________________________
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
