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Subject: The Game (was Re: Saddam Hussein)
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:48:13 GMT

In <43665@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> revans@euclid.ucsd.edu (Ron Evans) writes:

>> kaygee@hardy.u.washington.edu (Kevin Giansante) writes:

>>The obvious solution to the Saddam Hussein
>>problem is to eliminate Saddam Hussein, and I think the American
>>military is quite capable of that.


>   The American military?   Why don't the Iraqis do it
>   themselves?  Surely they can handle such an *obvious*
>   solution.
>
>--
>Ron Evans (revans@math.ucsd.edu)


You may have forgotten that the Iraqis did rise against Saddam after the defeat
in the gulf war. But what happened was that those who incited the uprising
abandoned those who responded to their calls, by:

a) in the north the arms supply from Iran was halted and Iraqi helicopters
   were allowed to fly and crush the rebelion.

b) In the south where the shiaa'ts rose the ALLIED forces opend the road they
   were blocking from middle of iraq to the south thereby allowing the
   republican guard (loyal to Saddam) to move in and crush the uprising there.

These are documented facts for those that want to brand me as a liar, the
media in the UK reported those.  You might well ask why don't the people of
Baghdad rise? well the answer is self evidant and that the military police
is every where and most of the population is intimidated and unarmed.

There does seem to be a marked reluctance on the part of the COALITION to
remove Saddam from power. WHY? and since when did the US really care about
human rights violations? they don't seem to be too bothered about it in the
former Yugoslivia or a lot of the african and south american countries? or
indeed the Gluf states? You only have to read Amnesty international's reports
to see what I mean.

There is something going on, it is linked with Bosina, The EC does *not* want
the US or NATO to get involved so that they can prove their viability as a
world body.  However, there is also an angry reaction from the islamic states
to this, most of whom are the gluf states.

The point here is that by raising the Iraq issue in the area a diversionary
channel is created to refocus attention of the Arabs and muslims in general on
Iraq thereby reducing the pressure on the EC, and the US ,which seems to be
doing most of the threats and bombing raids, is now invloved in another area of
the world so they can not overcommit themselves and deploy into bosnia!

This way everyone is happy, except the people of IRAQ and BOSNIA. Saddam will
not be removed from power becuase he is proving to be useful as a destabilising
element in a sensitive region. and by staying useful he stays alive and
powerful.

this is only my opinion and I do not suggest that it is an absolute truth but
one has to addmit that it does fit, if not all the facts, at least most of
them.
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