In These Times

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• • 12 Aug 05
  • 10:59 am

  Saddam, of course, had no interest in toppling the Iranian government -- he just wanted the Iranian oil fields. Actually overcoming and attempting to control a country full of Shiites would be his worst nightmare. Later on, he finally figured out that Kuwait was an easier target: he really didn't expect the western powers to take action. Yet another grievous mistake of his. A previous poster insinuates that the Iranian regime is like a cancer. This is a good analogy; unfortunately, when we could have taken care of the cancer at an early stage, the physician in charge (Mr. Carter) was …

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• • 14 Aug 05
  • 12:15 am

  Matilda Gatsby writes "...The democrats in our country are actually a center right political party, in opposition to an extremist far right political party...." After I stopped laughing at this, I began to wonder if 'Matilda' was heavy into peyote. The Democratic Party, at least since the early 1980's, is basically a totalitarian party along the lines of Stalin (but w/o the death camps for its enemies [yet]). It worships communism and UTTERLY HATES individual liberty. Its rhetoric to the contrary reminds me of countries with the word 'Democratic' in their titles: virtually all are dictatorships. To describe the Democratic Party …

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