the Manichean discomfort

[Honor Johnson]

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while balancing a pregnant horse on his nose...on alternate, =
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-----Original Message-----
From:	Carolyn Garner Siscoe [SMTP:globe@zipcon.net]
Sent:	Friday, November 22, 2002 5:43 PM
To:	Stephen Porterfield
Cc:	austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Subject:	Re: the Manichean discomfort

I think the Iraqi Parliament was very brave to vote no on compliance =
with the UN resolution.  It had a poison pill in it, it gives the US the =
right put US troops in Iraq.  It is the beginning of the invasion and I =
bet it will be over some little thing or some manufactured incident.  No =
country would ever willing let foreign troops on its soil.  The Serbs =
were given the same deal right before W.W.I and they refused knowing =
their refusal would lead to invasion which it did.  I hope the Iraqi =
Parl.'s vote will give some anxious moments to Bush and company about =
the Iraqi people supporting our invasion.  Bush, Cheney and Rumsfield =
are just a bunch of bullies wanting to beat up on someone they think =
they can win easily.  They believe it will be easy pickens all that nice =
oil,  but I wonder how easy it will be to protect the oil fields from =
sabotage?
 Anyway I hope Mike is right..manichean or no manicheans (i always =
thought they ran around in little feathers with claws on the end?)
 am listening to Janos Starker's complete bach complete suites solo =
cello, recorded in the mid 60's
carolyn

Stephen Porterfield wrote:

> "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster@hotmail.com> wrote:
> World history tells usnbsp;that stupid andnbsp;unbalanced leaders, =
particularly those with near-dictatorial powers , often get their =
countries into wars.nbsp; Of course, there are other factors at play in =
each case,nbsp; multiple causation to be sure,nbsp;nbsp; but ask =
yourself: Whose finger is on the button?nbsp; Do you trust that finger? =
End of story.
> >
> >
> >
> >Jon
> >
> > Jon's point here is very well put. However, since the 2000 Judicial =
Coup I have never thought that GW's intelligence, or sanity, or lack =
thereof was very relevant. Those of us with a passable knowledge of =
world history also know that it is common for those who wield the actual =
power to operate behind the stealth curtain of a puppet figurehead. =
Consider Cardinal Richelieu, Grigori Rasputin, and many other similar =
examples. In the early 1990's Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz began to =
assemble the plan for a world of "Pax Americana", a world controlled by =
imperial might abroad and ruthless totalitarianism at home. The inner =
members of the cabal now in control of the government have never veered =
from this agenda. The business about Saddam and Osama is (in my opinion) =
as transparently meretricious as the hysterical claims that Hitler made =
about the Jews and the Communists in Germany in the early 1930's. The =
real agenda is total military control of the Middle East. Iraq is only =
the
> jumping off point.
>
> Steve Porterfield
> =
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