Just received this email from a friend who failed to get a(admittedly poor) joke in response to an email requesting me to sign some petition to send to the UN. Frankly, however, this email annoys me and I am looking to beef up a very extended response that I have just composed. Does anyone care to join in this debate and help me out? By the way, my response to the original email was simply, “Utter drivel. I think we should bomb the life out of them” (this is NOT a view that I hold with any conviction and may have been a little off-hand - I don’t think it deserved this response)
I suppose you think your funny quicken, or worse intelligent. Its people like you who are the problem. Its so ignorant what you have just said. I am sure you know that the second largest oil reserves in the world after Saudi Arabia are in Iraq, and that the two of the three largest sectors of the American economy (which is on the verge of its severest recession since 1929) are the Oil and Gas sector and now Military Equipment if you think this war is to do with our protection and is the sensible policy you are just your average idiot. If we attack Iraq there will be more problems than before. The Islaamic peasant majority From Pakistan through to Morocco and Algeria already hate Europe and North America. Due to everything from hard core pornography ( by the way wal-mart the largest retailer in the world (which incidentally owns Asda) sells G-Strings for 3-4 year olds and have gun counters next door to the toy sections ) through to the fact that westerners have such a greedy and unhealthy society that 1 in 3 people in the US are obese and 1 in 5 in Europe, while poeple almost a billion people across the world are malnourished.
We think we are perfect (or at least people like you entertain such an air of arrogance that it would seem that the problem is always the fault of other cultures and their social policies ). Dont forget that as per usual this is US born fuck up, in that they we willing to install and support Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war as it was convenient then and did not give to hoots about the situation of the Iraqi people, as the 12 year trade embargo which has hindered any social or economic development and has caused mass food shortages in Iraq which Saddam has been blamed for, until in 1990 when their lucrative oil exrtaction and refinery contacts were threatened in Kuwait. Its has been well documented that Donald Rumsfeld even sold Saddam Military equipment until 1988-9 because thats his business and it still is. Now his client is the US tax payer and he and his peers are making more ill earned money than ever. As Cheney, Bush Jr. and Sr. will be with all their oil cronies when they have a new friendly, convenient, and corrupt regime that will conceede them all the oil contracts they can dream of. And as usual the profits of someone else’s resources will go into western pockets.
The Royal Family of Saudi Arabia already hated by the fundamentalist (majority of saudis) and could easily fall over night like the Tzaars of Russia, due to their oppulence and collaboration with the US. Saudi Arabia is the capital of the Islaamic world and the regime there what ever it may be sets the message for the people of Syria, Iran, Palestine, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Eygpt, the Sudan, and Ethiopia along with a whole host of other very poor and volatile muslim nations which are reaching boiling point with us.
My suggestion is that we dont go to war tomorrow and although I agree things are not stisfactory and can not be left alone the way to solve these problems surely would be to work peacefully with these countries and hear what they hate about us and how we might compromise or share the benefits.
Before you put up your defensive hippy or idiot defensive denial comment in your head that has probably already surfaced. I am jewish as you know, I have family in America, although I am English and work in Finance as you do and even have some experience of the inside of what you might consider to be a conspiracy world I have described above. Lets not all be sheep, like our pathetic and career minded prime minister Tony Blair (who would not mind a presidency of his own) and start acting with both our hearts and our heads not just our penises.
