[Calpernia]

>>>I simply pointed out that stories like these are quite easy to fabricate and disseminate....

Then why do we hear these stories from multi sources over decades of years from people that don't know each other? Why would parents pay to have their children smuggled out to a country they know nothing about in hopes of their survival? My sources aren't just the media. I've been there on medical rotations, I've gone to school with the smuggled out children that can never speak to their parents again.

[Byron deVilliers]

Again, you aren't following me.

Just because some stories are true, doesn't mean all stories are true....

Does that make more sense? Like I said, I never offerred an alternative vision of Saddam Hussein as some great philanthropist, I simply pointed out that we need to 1) be careful not to let historical allusions get in the way of our thinking about political situations. And 2) be mindful that there's an effort to get us all into a lather to support the killing of other people in their own name - that's what 'liberation war' means. As such, we need to be skeptical.