[CLUE-Talk] Charlie Daniels comments, article about Saddam's sons.

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:01:55 -0700
Jeffery Cann <fabian at jefferycann.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 23 March 2003 01:42 pm, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 
> > The thing which is most interesting to me is the fact that it seems as
> > if it's only recently that the story of the Hussien regime's barbarity
> > is gaining widespread exposure. Certainly, we all know about how he
> > gassed the Kurds, and none of this information has been hidden under a
> > barrel, but it seems to have been mostly off the U.S. public's radar
> > screen (the world's?). So why is it that it takes the onset of war to
> > focus the spotlight of public attention on stuff like this?
> 
> To add on:  Will it take more wars to acknowledge other atrocities such
> as things happening in Sudan, N. Korea, China, Chetchnya ?  Is the plan
> of the Administration to start wars with other countries with similar
> records of human rights violations -- to liberate them in the name of
> Democracy?