[Osx-nutters] President Bush Vows Attacks "Across the World"

[David Cake]

>At 9:45 AM -0400 6/10/06, Chuck Bennett wrote:
>>
>>[Here I snip a whole bunch of stuff about  radical Islam that is 
>>simply irrelevant because the Baathists were anything but devout 
>>Muslims]
>
>But not irrelevant to radical Islam.   I get your point about the 
>Baathists though.  As Muslims go, they were benign when it came to 
>the spread of Islam.

	Errr.... because the Baathists weren't really Islamic at all? 
The Baath ideology is secular, socialist Arab nationalism. Most of 
Saddams rhetoric was opposing religion in government (using that as 
an argument to criticise Israeli Zionism, naturally). And Saddam 
wasn't in the business of letting mulllahs have any say in government.
	If opposing radical Islam was the agenda, removing Saddams 
Baathist government was clearly idiotic.


At 9:45 AM -0400 6/10/06, Chuck Bennett wrote:
>More like having the Mafia run a country than anything else.

Sure. No one is saying they were good guys. They were bastards. But 
they were hardly unique in that respect.

	Cheers
		Dave