From: Glenn Morton (glenn.morton@btinternet.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 20:00:56 EST
Administrations rush to war with Iraq? (fwd)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:23:06 -0000
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>From: Joel Cannon [mailto:jcannon@washjeff.edu]
>Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:49 PM
>Regarding, Glenn's concern that Saddam's pan-Arabic government would
>try to ``topple the West,'' it is not credible that a country whose
>GNP in 1989 was $37,390 billion
>(http://comp9.psych.cornell.edu/Horan/gulf/Iraq_finance/Iraq_econom
>y.html---it
>was in deline has been declining since then as a result of the Gulf
>war and sanctions )with a few motley fission weapons would
>pose a legitimate threat to the US (or its allies). By contrast, the
>US had a GNP in 1991 (the year of my almanac) of $5,233 billion
>dollars, its defense budget exceeds the aggregate defense budget of
>the next 10 largest military budgets, and it has a massive arsenal of
>hydrogen bombs. Even if Saddam could add the combined GNP's of the
>occupied countries and occupation cost Saddam nothing, the threat he
>could pose would not be credible. (Glenn also mentioned N. Korea as a
>parallel. They are not a credible force to topple the west.)
Joel, my last response. I was enjoying not being on that list. I didn't say
that North Korea had the force to topple the west. What I said was that we
can't deal with them because they have the bomb.
As to Iraq, you seem to have little ability to look into the future. If
Saddam gets the bomb, the world and the US won't fight him because of our
fear of the bomb. he can then re-take Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as well. His
GNP will no longer be 37 trillion but many times that because he will
control the world's oil supply. He will have lots of money and slaves with
which to do what Ghengis Khan did (I bet you haven't read how he conquored
the world). He turned his conquored people into soldiers and marched them
in front of his army. The money he would have would allow him to build lots
of nukes lots of rockets. Egypt Libya and the rest of NOrth Africa could
not stand before him after that.
I think your problem is that you have never actually met some of these
Islamicists. I suspect that you think everyone is desirous of a comfortable
life of the intellect. That simply ain't so. It's a long story but I have
sat and had dinner with some of the Palestinian militants. I can assure you
that they are the most scarey guys I have ever had dinner with. They are
babes compared with Saddam. Their view is not one of western liberal
discussions and then we go to the pub and have a beer. They want power,
they are willing to kill for it and if anyone gets in their way, too bad.
They aren't like you so don't theorise that they are. Your goals are not
theirs and your desires are not Saddam's or Ouday's. Your views would make
them mock you in derision.
Absolutely last reply. Don't copy me.
glenn
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