Will it ever end?

At 16:54 PM 12/6/97 -0800, you wrote:

From: "Elias Bonilla" (kalimadragon@hotmail.com)
To: cybrgbl@deltanet.com
Cc: kalimadragon@hotmail.com
Subject: The Gulf conflict
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 16:54:30 PST

Dear Richard:

I wonder, Rich, if the United States is also responsible for volcanoes erupting and earthquakes killing hundreds of people. I truly ask myself if these guys really beleive this bull. I have arabian blood in me. I'm also part American, part south American and part Indian. I see with sadness what has happened to our brothers in the Persian Gulf because they do not understand that they are manipulated by a despotic goverment that is USING THEM to mantain itself in power. I just spent about an hour and a half reading the e-mails you have been getting and I cannot help but see that they are being written by close minded individuals. I study psychology and emotionalism control is one of my favorite topics. Some of the individuals that wrote you refered to Saddam Hussein as a "savior" because he had transformed Iraq to the power that it is today. I would like to cite to them the rise to power of the third German Reich in Europe in the early 1930's. Germans also saw their leader as a "savior" because he had brought them out of crisis and poverty to be a world power. However, I doubt that anybody will agree that Hitler also had his "good" points and although he still did some "mistakes" like killing 50 million people, his good points still outdo his bad points. So much for similarities, but lets go back to emotionalism and mass control. Hitler was one of the most brilliant of mass controlers and I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Hussein didn't draw his lessons from the Fhurer. It is not logical sense that lead people to defend a ruthless leader that sacrifices his people for his pride, it is mass control. I dare say that Hussein is using the religious fervor of his people to his advantage as a control method over his people. My muslim friends: I am not a religious person but if Allah is a just God that protects his people. You actually think that Allah would help a monster like Saddam Hussein??? I also find it ironic that the Iraqi radicals blame the US for things that they themselves do. I have serious doubts that Iraq (whose mistakes all seem to be instigated by the US) din't have any interests when it invaded Iran, and Kuwait. If the US is so much after the precious oil in Kuwait, why instigate Iraq (a non friendly country) to invade it? It does not work well in business to hand over your supply to somebody who is not going to give it to you get it?

As far as we being a cruel and evil nation I will let the facts speak for themselves. Just blocks from where I live there is an Iraqi neighborhood that lives in peace surrounded by Iranians, Turks, and many other peoples. I drive through there to a friend's house sometimes, and I see little blond children playing with arabian and black children. In contrast how freely can an American circulate in Iraq if not even the Iraquies are inmune to Saddam's police govermetn? For instigating a war that is destroying his people for his personal gain I dislike Saddam. If Saddam was for the interest of his people he would allow them freedom. I will also cite how we treated their prisoners of war, feeding them and giving them medical attention, and how they treated ours, brutaly beating them and brainwashing them to use them for propaganda. "It is a shame: Even the allied pilots condem the war!" read the headlines. Nobody ate that Saddam, the world knew your cruelty. Which is the cruel nation? The guy who refered to the US as the "smiling snake" was tripping over his own arguments: first he says that the US interferes too much all over the world and then he condems the US for NOT interfering in Bosnia....sense? Yay or nay?

Another attack came in the tone that we were all brainwashed by the media. I would like to remind all involved that the press in the United States is generaly disliked by the goverment because it always talks wether it denounces Iraq or condems the US goverment itself!!! I'm sure that the US goverment controls to a certain degree what the press states but the press is also the first one to condemn the government when something goes wrong. Who was it that questioned the ethics of attacking a fleeing Iraqi army out of Kuwait during the war? Don't tell me that was also instigated by the goverment also. At least our freedom of press alows us the freedom to publish what we honestly beleive is the closest thing to truth instead of being forced by the goverment to accuse the US of bombing yet ANOTHER baby milk factory...

Please understand that I am not saying that the US goverment is a pure thing. To do so I would be just as a knucklehead as some of the people that have been writng statents like "America is a nation of Bastards.." when they've ignorantly have probably never met an american. However I firmly beleive that we beleive in freedom as the main asset for a man. I ask everybody out there that thinks Saddam is a just leader to judge him not out of pride but in his treatment for his people. You will find that Saddam's intentions are not of progress for his people but for himself. He doesn't suffer like everybody on the street does. He hides among civilian suburbs (which America that cruel nation and any of its cruel friends) does not bomb for the sake of the people. Nobody is perfect but for God's sake recognize an oppression when you see it! and as far as that guy threatening with Allah's judgement, if I were him I would fear for my life! Cause if I were Allah I'd be pretty pissed to find out that Saddam has been mistreating my people.

Sincerely:

Elias Bonilla

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      Dear Elias,

      I agree with nearly everything you say - I think those who defend Iraq and Hussein do so not so much out of love for the man but out of hatred for the United States. Their arguments mistake the forest for the trees. And as for the Islamic extremists.... well, isn't ignorance its own penalty? I believe in fifteen years after the dust has settled on all this, the world and posterity will observe the crises revolving around Iraq and Saddam Hussein and see things as you do now.

      I wonder about the justice of this world when I see the Iraqi people suffer for their leaders actions without being able to do anything about it. This imperfect system of sanctions does not change the reality of Hussein's brutishness, and he may still cause some serious trouble in the future with weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, biological weapons). I wonder if it would not be more humane to simply gather an international military force, invade Iraq, and then give that country a thorough enema - the Iraqi political system being so clogged with the scum of that country whom seem to have sunk to the top.

      What a pathetic situation. And no end to it in sight. And the poor powerless Iraqi people paying the lion's share of the penalty for their reckless bonehead of a leader.

      *sigh*

      Very Truly Yours,

      Richard