And his gassing of the Kurdish people. Hussein was a shill for the US administration. He was necessary to keep the lid on Iran for those years. "My enemy's enemy is my friend" kinda thing. The mistake as I see it is that Iraq wasn't taken in 1991. However, geo-politics and the strategic uses of the various military should come as no surprise to anyone here. The question of right or wrong is usually filtered through the sieve of necessity--and the resultant determinations are made by people who don't give a shit about other people. Hey, what's new?

Millions died in Cambodia, millions starve in Africa--governments don't fu#kin' care. Get used to it. It sucks, but that is the world we have made. Remember when you were a kid and the occasional homeless person could be handled at the YMCA/YMHA? Today we'd need a friggin' State or Province to shelter homeless people. So what has led to our attitudes--attitudes that say human life means shit, and not only that, but we are proud of not caring?

Bruce Murdoch