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• Reader Comments (10)

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  The Bush clique will try to turn Iraq into a U.S. colony, provoking violence there and elsewhere to even higher levels!
  Wait and see. Then comes North Korea and Iran. After that ? Who knows.....Sharon as Gauleiter of the Middle East? Blair as King of Europe. The Far East ruled by the Chinese. Colonise France, Germany and the rest of it. What a future!
  I’m glad being so old not to see it. 
  

  Posted by Hubert Muhlbock on Jan 30, 2003 at 1:55 AM

  Mr. North, I adore how the leftists in our midst travel the world but always manage to live in New York City.  There are many angles to the coming confrontation with Iraq, but I love how it always boils down to oil.  How simple...sorta like “good” and “evil”, two terms liberal journalism seems to have tossed in the dust bin in favor of a more panache approach to age old humanisms.  I’ll bet you $1000 that the US will NOT turn Iraq into a US colony.  Put your money where your mouth is, ya prescient pacifist.  You got 48 hours to respond, we’ll sign the deal (a handshake is all I’d need...you?) and publish the challenge prior to the invasion.  Cheers!
  
  

  Posted by Sean Andrews on Jan 30, 2003 at 6:18 PM

  that article is not bad
  

  Posted by juancarlos on Feb 1, 2003 at 8:28 AM

  A reasonable and enjoyable piece. It gave me more pause to reflect than some of the rabid leftist trash on this site, and also gave me a reason to return here. Thanks, Mr. North. 
  

  Posted by Jonathan Seeley on Feb 1, 2003 at 9:58 AM

  An interesting analysis! There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein and his rule of terror must end. This should have been done long ago for the sake of regional/world peace, the liberation of an educated, secular and modern Arab population, the elimination of a staging area for Al Quaeda (remember 911??) and, yes, to guarantee a steady supply of oil that allows the civilized world to operate..like it or not. In this regard, I feel that the Administration is correct in pushing Saddam to the wall. First in asking for inspections with teeth and then, if true compliance isn’t forthcoming, to assemble a strong allied coalition with a world mandate to either liquidate Hussein and his henchmen or bring him to the world court for crimes against humanity.
  I am, however, profoundly bothered by the extreme right in our nation and its jingoistic nativism which denounces and alienates those world powers that could give us universal legitimacy in an Iraqi war of liberation. We needed from the get-go to work the diplomatic channels quietly to address the concerns of our allies and bring them on board. That’s called leadership! Instead we got sophomoric bluster and theatre more becoming of a bad John Wayne movie than the policy machinations of a great and moral world power. The dismissal of Russia, France and Germany as Euro-wimps or the “Old Europe” is counterproductive as we need to be actively engaged in building diplomatic bridges with these very influencial allies.

  Neither do I accept the assertion among the fringe left that we have designs of colonizing the area. If anything, our past foreign interventions have been highlighted by leaving the area of operations too early due to a bored public or inconvenient political troubles come the next election cycle (see Bosnia and Kosovo) There have always been naive pacifists and appeasers who bemoan any armed intervention for any reason. Remember that history remembers Churchill as a giant and has largely dismissed Neville Chamberlin to the foot notes of history. 
  

  Posted by Mike Radoiu on Feb 1, 2003 at 10:58 PM

  I doubt seriously any body of politics which puts Khaddafi’s regime at the helm of human rights monitoring and Iraq chairing an inspections meeting, and generally gives all countries in the world equal moral standing because they are alphabetically next, can proffer any sense of legitimacy to US action.
  

  Posted by Sean Andrews on Feb 2, 2003 at 12:03 AM

  Symptomatic medicine rules these discussions of Iraq.  The environmental movement is busy jumping from one attack after another and cannot keep up. Who will be next. The mujahadeen and Afghan warlords we just rearmed.  We must stop the globalizing,propagrandizing, money stealing, weapon making, meglomaniacs and stop buying their plastic crap made by our slaves in the 3rd world, which America is proudly on the way to becoming. Wake up, one more thing still won’t make you happy, no matter how many children have to die to provide it to you. Thirty years ago we were asked, do you have a better way? Now, the answer is yes. Turn off the TV and see the world being born in alternative energy, farming, etc. and the rising up of the people around the world, kenya, brazil etc.. 
  

  Posted by Darrell Denisi on Feb 4, 2003 at 6:28 AM

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  Posted by fdf on Feb 8, 2003 at 6:20 PM

  Saddam is part of the U.S. governments’ Great Dictators set that includes Castro, Kadaffi, etc. Bush is part of the Idiot Presidents’ set. Collect ‘em all........................

  Posted by Bobby on Feb 9, 2003 at 2:26 AM

  And the Left prattled on ... Saddam sad to see you go .... 

  Posted by wharold on May 16, 2003 at 6:11 PM

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