Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00174)

Steve Stubbs wrote:
> The reference was to WMDs and not to the means of self defense. 
> Please explain how a country can defend itself by releasing 
> biological agents which would wipe out all life on earth.
By having a cure.

> > Please learn the definition of the word, "depleted".
> I missed your point. As I said, there is some reason to believe that 
> genetic defects in Iraq are caused by chemical agents used by the 
> Iraqi government, but for reasons unknown Iraqi doctors have not come 
> forth and publicly blamed this on Saddam Hussein and his sons. The 
> same depleted uranium was used in Kosovo, but I have heard nothing 
> about Yugoslavia glowing in the dark or everyone there dying from 
> radiation poisoning.
You can't get radiation poison from depleted uranium. Depleted uranium 
is uranium that has no radioactive isotopes.

> You mean England. Jews were persecuted in the Netherlands during 
> occupation. The Netherlands were also a dependency of Spain at one 
> time.
But the Dutch people did not cooperate with the Germans in the 
persecution of the Jews (and didn't cooperate with the Spanish, either; 
many Jews escaped to the Netherlands in 1492 and 1494).

> How many Jews are there remaining in Arab countries? I thought they 
> had all emigrated by now.
They were all kicked out and their property confiscated, under pain of 
death. Not a peep was made in the world. But if the Israelis did it to 
the Islamic people living there, the world would be up in arms.

> I am not a Saddam fan, but your facts are suspect. If you were 
> right, the Mandaeans would have been wiped out long ago.
The Kurds.

Bart Lidofsky