[Vision2020] Parade magazine -10 Worst Living Dictators

[Ted Moffett]

Brent, et. al.

I agree with this idea that Saddam is not that worst dictator out there.

It is amazing how our media and government avoid demonizing the tyrannical 
Saudi government after 15 of the 19 9/11 attack terrorists were from Saudi 
Arabia, with a money trail also coming from Saudi Arabia to aid 
fundamentalist Islamic terrorism.  An incredible number of Americans think 
Iraq is strongly linked to 9/11 when the evidence is that Saudi Arabia is 
more clearly connected to 9/11.

And then there is Pakistan with Musharef as dictator in charge of nuclear 
weapons with factions within Pakistan's's borders connected to Bin Laden, Al 
Qaeda and terrorists who attack India, yet Pakistan is now a US "ally."

Everyone knows the threat from North Korea.

Does anyone really think that if Iraq had zero oil, Israel was removed from 
the equation, and Iraq really represented a military force that could 
inflict mass causalities against US forces, instead of this pending "war" 
being more like shooting fish in a barrel, that we would be so eager to 
invade rather than adopt a strategy of containment?

Ted





>From: "Brent Capener" <cape@moscow.com>
>To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Parade magazine -10 Worst Living Dictators
>Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:24:31 -0800
>
>     There was a very interesting, unbiased, condensed-for-easy-reading 
>article in this Sunday's Parade magazine (part of the Lewiston Morning 
>Tribune).  Author David Wallechinsky consulted Freedom House, Amnesty 
>International, and Human Rights Watch among others to compile a list called 
>"The 10 Worst Living Dictators".  Quote "extra credit" was given to those 
>that "interfere violently in the politics of countries other than their 
>own".  Two things really caught my interest: our buddies King Fahd and 
>Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia together placed second ahead of our 
>arch rival Saddam Hussein.  About Saddam (third) Mr. Wallechinsky writes:  
>"After the Gulf War, Saddam was considered over the hill as a global-scale 
>dictator until President George W. Bush began to promote his status as a 
>threat to world peace".
>     If you don't subscribe you can read entire article by going to public 
>library or Moscow's recycle bin.  Look for Avril Lavigne photo on cover.  I 
>couldn't access the article on the web.
>
>
>                                                                            
>     Brent Capener
>
>PS:  Avril rocks!


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