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Sunday, March 09, 2003 Page: 3B
I AM WRITING IN REGARDS TO A LETTER TO THE EDITOR ON FEB. 13 BY DOROTHY
RICCI AND HER STATEMENT THAT A LETTER WRITTEN BY A GENTLEMAN REVEALED HIS
IGNORANCE TO THE REAL CAUSES TO TERRORISM. HER FIRST POINT WAS THAT THE UNITED
STATES SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL REGARD LESS OF ITS TREATMENT OF THE PALESTINIANS
AND 30 YEARS OF FAILING TO OBEY THE UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION TO RETURN LAND
TO THE PALESTINIANS AND PRESIDENTS BUSH’S UNPROVOKED AGGRESSION AGAINST IRAQ
WERE THE CAUSES OF TERRORISM. MOST ARAB STATES DO NOT WANT THE PALESTINIANS IN
THEIR OWN COUNTRIES, IS RAEL AND THE UNITED STATED GIVE MORE ASSISTANCE TO THE
PALESTINIANS THAN ANY ARAB STATE. THE FACT IS NO ARAB COUNTRY WILL RECOGNIZE
ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO EXIST. SINCE 1948 ISRAEL HAS FOUGHT FOUR WARS (1948, 1956,
1967 AND 1973) WITH ITS ARAB NEIGHBORS WHOSE STATED OBJECTIVE IS TO DRIVE THE
JEWS INTO THE SEA. THE UNITED STATES SUPPORTS ISRAEL BECAUSE IF WE DID NOT
THERE WOULD BE A MASSACRE. WE ARE ALSO SUPPORTING AND PROTECTING MUSLIMS IN
BOSNIA FOR THAT SAME REASON. FRANCE AND GERMANY HAVE HAD TERRORIST ACTS
AGAINST THEM BY MUSLIM EX TREMISTS FOR YEARS. RECENTLY ITALY UNCOVERED A PLOT
TO BLOW UP A GOVERN MENT BUILDING BY MUSLIM TERRORISTS. THESE COUNTRIES DO NOT
SUPPORT ISRAEL BUT YET THEY HAVE BEEN TARGETS OF MUSLIM TERRORIST. THE REASON
FOR TERROR BY MUSLIM EXTREMIST IS OUR WAY OF LIFE, OUR MUSIC, MOVIES,
TELEVISION, OUR FREEDOM TO LIVE OUR LIVES AS WE WISH, AND OUR FORM OF
GOVERNMENT. A FEW FACTS FOR MS. RICCI TO RESEARCH: SADDAM HUSSEIN INVADED IRAN
IN 1980 AND WAS AT WAR UNTIL 1988 AND USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS AS STATED IN A
U.N. REPORT IN 1986. SADDAM HUSSEIN HAS USED CHEMICALS ON IRAQI CITI ZENS
WHERE THOUSANDS WERE KILLED. HE DID NOT CARE BECAUSE THEY WERE KURDS. IF HE
WON’T HESITATE TO KILL HIS OWN PEOPLE HOW SAFE CAN WE BE? WHERE WAS THE UNITED
NATIONS WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL? DURING THE GULF WAR WHILE WITHDRAWING FROM KUWAIT
HE SET FIRE TO OVER 700 OIL WELLS IN ADDITION TO DUMPING THOUSANDS OF GALLONS
OF OIL INTO THE PERSIAN SEA. WAS SADDAM CONCERNED ABOUT THE ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE
OR HEALTH PROBLEMS DONE TO THE PEOPLE IN THAT REGION? SADDAM HUSSEIN HAS
KILLED ANYONE HE SUS PECTS BEING AGAINST HIM INCLUDING FAMILY MEMBERS, WITH NO
TRIAL OR HEAR INGS. IRAQ HAS NOT GIVEN A FULL ACCOUNTING OF BIOLOGICAL AND
CHEMICAL WEAP ONS THAT THEY WERE KNOWN TO HAVE BEFORE THEY KICKED OUT U.N.
INSPECTORS PREVIOUSLY. THE UNITED STATES HAS A LOT WRONG WITH IT, BUT IT STILL
HAS THE BEST FORM OF GOVERNMENT MANKIND HAS EVER HAD. WE ARE FREE TO BELIEVE
AND SAY WHAT WE WISH, WE CAN WORSHIP ANY RELIGION OR NONE AT ALL, ANY PERSON
CAN BE WHAT THEY WANT TO BE. IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES MS. RICCI WOULD NOT BE MAK
ING HER OUTLANDISH STATEMENTS AGAINST THE LEADERS OR GOVERNMENTS. THE FACT IS
NO ONE WANTS A WAR BUT PEOPLE SUCH AS SADDAM HUSSEIN ARE DANGEROUS TO THE
WORLD. THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ACTED THE SAME WAY WITH HITLER AND MILLIONS DIED
BECAUSE THEY DID NOT ACT. THE UNITED STATES MUST STOP THIS MAN WITH THE UNITED
NATIONS OR WITHOUT THE UNITED NATIONS OR HISTORY WILL BE DOOMED TO REPEAT
ITSELF. Dennis Ryan
Swoyersville