To save myself some time in typing, here is an email I sent to Gambia-Post a
while back. I just hate repeating myself over and over again:

"Let's assume that the US did give Saddam all the nerve gas, the mustard gas
and other weapons of mass destruction. Let's assume that he committed all
those atrocities under the watchful and approving eyes of the US. Now let's
focus totally on the plight of the Iraqis alone. Under what condition can
anyone justify their living under such a demented and horrible leader who
would be willing to do all those atrocities to his own people just because
he didn't face any objections from a superpower?

"It's a fact that under previous governments that the US did help Saddam and
look the other way when Saddam was committing those atrocities. Just like
others argued, if the US helped in creating this monster, then it has an
even greater responsibility to correct its wrongs by getting rid of him
now."

On the question of war for oil:

I have no problem if the US is fighting this war because of oil. I can't
imagine the US putting the oil to worse use than the Saddam. So that is
that. About France and Germany - their whole position is that they oppose
this war because they want to give peace a chance without making a single
reference to oil.

Ousman




>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list              Ousman,
>
>The war is not being waged for the sake of Saddam's victims either because
>those victims were killed with chemical and biological agents supplied by
>the
>U.S ro help Saddam win the war against Iran as has already been socumented.
>
>As for France and Germany being against the war for their own financial
>interests, why do you suppose the U.S wants to go to war with Iraq?
>OIL!!!!!!!
>
>Jabou Joh
>
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