From: Jos at meltemi.co.uk (Jos Osborne)
Subject: IE

> Interestingly, the main reason Osama wants you dead isn't because you're
> American per se, it's because as an American, you have helped to wage war
> upon him.  First I might add.  The core of the current terrorism problem
> is that we support mass-murder through Israel.  We provide the weapons,
> the various support structures and lastly, we deliberately block any
> attempts made to force them to behave like human beings.

Osama doesn't want _you_ dead. Preferably he wants America as a whole to stop imposing it's policies on the rest of the world, and maybe even convert to Islam . It's just that he is perpared to kill you if that helps towards his goal.



> There's a whole lot of talk about how Saddam "had it coming" for
> "violating the UN" - maybe we should apply the same standards to our
> friends as well as enemies?  Go look at how many US violations Israel has.

If our governments were ever held accountable for the breaches of human rights committed in their name the judgement would be very unlikely to be to their liking.

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