On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:15:46 GMT, Gunner
wrote:
snip
At least Saddam knows how to stop the civil war in Iraq.


By killing everybody, along with their families.

Gunner
===========
The CIA and MI-6 put the Shah back in power didn't they? If
seddam will guarantee cheap oil priced in US dollars with the
profits to be invested in US treasury securities he will be back
in a heartbeat.




Unka George
(George McDuffee)

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not
the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things
which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat
to be a cause of international conflict.
Simone Weil (1909-43), French philosopher, mystic.
«The Power of Words», in Nouveaux Cahiers (1 and 15 April 1937;
repr. in Selected Essays, ed. by Richard Rees, 1962)