[SOC] presidential lies

[Lloyd Lachow]

--- Ron Wetjen <wd4ahz@gte.net> wrote:
the discovery
> of another mass 
> grave
> 
> Too bad this is what's always overlooked.


   Hey, I don't think it was overlooked! The issue I
raise is about how the US "administration" went about
the job - rather than working with the rest of the
world, the US made a radical turn, away from
cooperation, toward pre-emption.  And, why Saddam?
He's not nearly the worst! What about:



 Kim Jong-il, 61, who came to power in 1994 after the
death of his father Kim Il-sung, iron-fisted ruler of
North Korea for 46 years. The younger Kim has allowed
vast numbers of his citizens to starve to death, and
an estimated 150,000 are languishing in labor camps.
Some 300,000 have fled to China. He admitted to having
developed a nuclear program and recently withdrew from
the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. 

Second in line are two Saudi royalty counting as one,
King Fahd, 80, and Crown Prince Abdullah, 79, who have
been in power since 1982 and 1995. The former suffered
a stroke in 1995 and his half-brother, the Crown
Prince, has taken control. No one must criticize the
royal family. Trials are held in secret and adultery
and abandoning Islam are punishable by beheading.
Using a cell phone on an airplane is punishable by 20
lashes. Floggings are often done in shopping malls and
are publicly announced. Saudi women are not allowed to
drive and walking alone in the street risks beating or
detention as "moral offenders." 

[Saddam was the third on this list]


Landing No. 4 is someone you may not have heard about:
Liberia's Charles Taylor, 55, in power since 1997. He
fled to the United States after absconding with funds
but was extradited back to Liberia. He escaped during
his trial and reappeared as the rebel army chief who
invaded Liberia touching off a civil war. In 1997,
Liberians elected him president, but civil war
returned. And according to Amnesty International,
Taylor's army has routinely tortured citizens, put
civilians under forced labor and used rape as a tactic
to instill terror. 

No. 5 is in Southeast Asia: Than Shwe, 70, Burma's
strongman since 1992. There is no rule of law in that
country called Myanmar by the military regime, only
dictates from the junta. The International Labor
Organization calls Burma's forced labor a "form of
modern slavery." The country recruits boys as young as
11 to serve in the military. The junta has released
Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest but has not held
another election since 1990, whose results it had
canceled anyhow. 

[see next post]

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