It is all about Oil [WAS Re: [CLUE-Talk] Traitors, Cowards, Scoundrels, and Intelligent Dissenters]

[Randy Arabie]

On Monday, 31 March 2003 at 22:28:05 -0700, Timothy C. Klein
<teece at silverklein.net> wrote:
> 
> Randy, I have a question on this terrorism point.  Sure, there is
> evidence of Saddam supporting terrorists.  But it is not an overwhelming
> argument in favor of war.  The only major thing that comes to my mind is
> the $25,000 (or whatever it was) to families of those Palestinians who
> die as suicide bombers.  That is mostly a PR ploy to try to get Arab
> sentiment on his side, and is not particularly important to US
> interests.  That is really the Israeli's problem.
> 
> Is there some other major form of terrorism support that Hussein doles
> out that I have missed?  Because that really does not seem like
> anything.  If we are going to go after terrorists, Syria, Jordan, and
> Iran would make a hell of a lot more sense.  Doubly so, considering that
> Hussein has been under the microscope for 12 years, and has had a third
> of his country under the power of US and British fighter planes.  I
> really think Hussein is a toothless tiger.
> 
> The terrorism argument really seems like bunk, unless I am missing some
> major contributions that Hussein has made.  Am I?

Here is a link to a good summary:

http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/disarm/terrorism.htm

It details more than just paying money to the families of suicide
bombers.
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Randy
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