now don;t get me wrong here i think 'mercuh has been at best incredibly naieve and short sighted and at worst two faced and hypocritical in their foreign policy, and i don;t really want to defent them. BUT, a lot has changed in the word since the iran / iraq war, and i'm not just referring to 9/11 (11/9 damn-it) either. As has been pointed out, iraq was a progressive country with no religeous tensions when the us was giving them money and arms. things aren;t quite as black and white as they are being painted although portraying them as such means a good story in the newspapers and keeps the 'mercuns clutching their guns in fear. cheers julian
