Greatest Threat to Freedom

[Kedamono]

What is the greatest threat to freedom in America? Muslim terrorists misinterpreting the Koran or the fear mongers in the Bush administration?

Check out the freedom robbing qualities of the Patriot Act at http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html and an article about the Patriot Act 2 at http://www.alternet.org/story/15541. Here is an excerpt of what's to come in the Patriot Act 2: Americans could have their citizenship revoked, if found to have contributed "material support" to organizations deemed by the government, even retroactively, to be "terrorist." Be afraid. Be very afraid.

One day I may move to the land of the free -- Canada.

[Kedamono]

If put on public trial, Saddam Hussein would have a field day revealing the embarrassing alliance between his brutal regime and Washington:

• CIA's role in bringing the Ba'ath Party to power in a 1958 coup, opening the way for Saddam to take control. The overthrow of the the Iraqi monarchy in what one former U.S. diplomat, who asked not to be identified, described as "a horrible orgy of bloodshed."

• US, Israeli, Iranian destabilization of Iraq during the 1970's by fueling Kurdish rebellion. Washington's egging on the aggressive Shah of Iran in the Shatt al-Arab waterway dispute, a primary cause of the Iran-Iraq War.

• US secretly urging Iraq to invade Iran in 1980 to overthrow that nation's revolutionary Islamic government.

• Covert supply of Saddam's war machine by the US and Britain during the eight-year Iran-Iraq conflict: biological warfare programs and germ feeder stocks, poison gas manufacturing plants and raw materials. Billions in aid, routed through the US Department of Agriculture, Italy's Banco del Lavoro, and the shady bank, BCCI. Heavy artillery, munitions, spare parts, trucks, field hospitals, and electronics.

Equally important, the US Defense Intelligence Agency and CIA operated offices in Baghdad that provided Iraq with satellite intelligence data on Iranian troop deployments that provided decisive in the war's titanic battles at Basra, Majnoon, and Faw.

• The murky role played by Washington just before Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The US Ambassador told Saddam `the US takes no position in Arab border disputes.' Was this a trap to lure Saddam to invade Kuwait, then crush his army, or simple diplomatic bungling? Saddam could supply the awkward answers.

[Wolfie]

I would pick both because they seem to feed off each other nowadays.

[stecbine]

George Bush is the worlds greatest threat and even though I am Canadian I do take a serious interest in my fellow neighbours politics to the south & I can not wait until Kerry becomes president & we get that criminal (Bush) out of power!!!!

[tamarisk]

Come on true i do not agree with all dubya policies however, the terrorists are a much greater threat.