Ousman,

We decry the rule of Yaya Jammeh but we are not asking the U.S to come in,
level the place with bombs and change our leadership for us. There si a big
difference. Only the people of a country can change their leadeship, unless
we want to support the notion that if anyone disagrees with any government on
any issues, they can go in and change the leadership for those people. The
United States bills itself as the example o democracy in the World, so when
they advocate going in to change a government in another country, people
better decry it.
No doubt the Iraqis are suffering, but part of that suffering is a direct
result of sanctions levied on them, and which sanctions continue even as
children are dying like flies in Iraq.
Yes, Saddam Hussein may be as bad a leader as the ysay, but all the evidence
is coming from the American side and these days, people take that with a
grain of salt.
Ritter, one of the former inspectors in Iraq sais there were no weapons od
mass distruction and granted, there needs to be another inspection to confirm
this, but the Bush administration was not going to grant the Iraqis the
benefit of the doubt by conducting this inspection, they were simply going to
bomb both Saddam and the already suffering Iraqi people you are referring to
to smithereens, period.
It is with the insistance of the United Nations and the refusal of French and
Russian
members of the Security council to go along with the Bush administration that
has at least given the Iraqis a chance to see if their leader will comply
with teh inspections before they are rained upon with fire and brimstone.
There is a big difference between criricizing one;s government and trying ot
find ways for the citizens of that country to bring about change themselves
as it should be, and giving sanctions to another country to come in and
effect that change for them especially when it was unsolicited. I believe
Saddam won his elections just like Yaya said he did.

Jabou Joh


In a message dated 11/8/2002 5:39:36 PM Greenwich Standard Time,
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>
> US maybe planning to wage war on Iraq to have access to cheap oil but I
> can't help thinking that the US would be doing Iraqis a huge favor by
> getting rid of Saddam. In all this outrage about the supposed war-mongering
> by the US, it unbelievable why people fail to connect the plight of
> ordinary
> Iraqis with the terrible reign of Saddam.
> How can people decry the rule of Yahya Jammeh and an in the same breath act
> as if Saddam is an angel?
>
> Ousman
>

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