European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday september 25, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 13 . Rosenthalis s time to Stop playing games with Saddam spare us the astonishment and indignation that the Bush administration puts on about Saddam Hussein a naught Nesses. Maybe then we will see How to get rid of the Man. Did president Bush after keeping Saddam Hussein in Power truly believe that he would accept defeat out of sheer Gentl manliness did Bush think that after Saddam so carefully hid All those missiles and chemical and bacteriological weapons he would hand them Over to . Inspectors to make their Day fruitful Bush called Saddam a Hitler. Did he believe the fellow would become a reformed Hitler the administration might be cynical but it is not stupid. The United states having Defeated Iraq militarily fled Victory. The reason was that saudi Arabia and Syria wanted us to do so. They were justifiably terrified that a relatively representative government might emerge in Iraq out of the rebel movements a and that it would be contagious. So the United states signed up with the evil idea of allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in Power along with his terrorist baath political party and the gang around him. It did have the Wistful Hope that one of the gang would put a Bullet in Saddam s brain. Nobody obliged. Saddam Hussein lives and Maneu vers in growing Power he the party and the gang. This is embarrassing to Bush. But he will not admit error. A president but a lot of the rest of us can a americans like myself who thought Bush really meant not just to save the kuwaiti rulers but end Saddam Hussein a tyranny just because he said so. We arc Lucky Trust is not a crime in this country a nor brings death As it did to the kurd. Done is done. But ending the be fogging mock astonishment might give us clarity to see what to do now. First Stop playing mouse to the Saddam cat. He grabs every Chance to defy the United nations for military advantage and to preen before the Muslim world. He carried out arms collecting raids in contemptuous violation of the . Cease fire line. He showed . Inspectors weapons and no ok5awhercstwebowb it i done to knot mkt Cancu about. Clear facilities a when they knew the exact Sites. He blocked them with bullets or bureaucracy from Hunting for what they could not pin Down. And he continues to use War and terror against the kurd and shiite rebels. Sending planes to protect the inspectors will Stop him a once. Then he will move again and again As Long As he is in Power. Short Range a Small but permanent and powerful military base in Iraq could provide continuous Protection for . Operations. It would remind Iraq that its Leader has sacrificed their sovereignty. But As sen. Albert Gore d-tenn., and a handful of other members of Congress say until they Are hoarse the Basic policy toward Iraq must change. One pistol though a Happy thought will not be enough. Iraq would remain under his fellow killers and their party a like killing Hitler to promote Goring. What a needed is what Bush has not come up with a a political strategy understood by americans and iraqis to remove Saddam Hussein and his state despotism. The United states should give full political and Public opinion support to the kurd a and to the shiite rebels too instead of assuming no iraqi dissidents want or can be trusted with Freedom. Food and Medicine from iraqi funds should be sent into Iraq and distributed by . Specialists a particularly to rebels and their families a under guard without Saddam Hussein a permission. War crimes tribunals should try Saddam Hussein and his top leaders in absent a making it Clear to All others that to stick with them is to invite the noose. Defectors should be protected and re warded. Military action May be needed on a spot target basis. But if the United states at last uses its political and economic Power against him with the Clear ethical goal of ending his tyranny the War damage done to Iraq already should make repeated massive attacks unnecessary. To accomplish the end of the tyranny Bush must concede that Saddam Hussein and his gang Are the agents of disorder and instability not their victims. Only so can the Victory be reclaimed and the persian Gulf War justified. Otherwise Saddam Hussein will continue to Rule in Iraq and continue to grow in Power until he is ready to fight again a Saddam the son of Saddam or the clone of Saddam. C Tho n y. Timos nows Sonvico William f. Buckle thoughts of presidency still haunt Mcgovern at 68, George Mcgovern is Spry resourceful endearing and unreformed. He will Tell you that for those who have been nominated for the presidency and lost political life is just a Little lacklustre and the longing is hard to quell to try it one More time which is Why he very nearly did so deciding Only two months ago to forgo the race. When considering another go Mcgovern had said publicly a in my soul. I know my qualifications for the presidency a Wisdom wit historical perspective toughness a Are better at 68 than at 48.�?� inviting his opponent to remark that nobody could disagree with that statement. How could it be otherwise a sickness happily minor affected his decision not to run but that sickness he told the students of the University of Florida did remind him of his mortality. A Demon brought to mind the comment made by the pious Spanish guide when asked 30 years ago How was life in Seville now that Cardinal Segura had died she answered that on dying. A Cardinal Segura and we passed on to a better the populist intellectual George Mcgovern is a . Who went from a professorship at Dakota Wesleyan to politics is most fearfully aroused by the budget deficit although he does not Welcome being reminded that in 1983 when he saw the size of the deficit he called for a a Cap on medicare and social Security payments absolutely no Rise for three or four years until we get the Cap under one has the impression he rather wishes he had t said that just As he rather wishes he had t recommended in 1975 that we Send the marines to Cambodia to do something about the Khmer Rouge. Of he is most unforgiving about the greed and executive neglect that have added the Burden of the a amp a crisis to the nations budget Burden. It was laxity in the regulators under Ronald Reagan that caused it All a that and of course the greed of big business. Which brings to mind something said in 1933 a was to guaranteeing Bank deposits the minute the government starts to do that. The government runs into a probable loss. We do not wish to make the United states government liable for the mistakes and errors of individual Banks and put a Premium on sound banking in the who said that i want $5 from each of you who experiences primordial Joy on learning that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yes for went on in 1934 to endorse a Bank guarantee of $2,500. That have led to the a amp a scandals. But watch typical stuff under Truman 1950it was raised to $10,000. Under lbs 1966$15,000 under Nixon 1969$20,000 under Ford 1974$40,000 and under Carter 1980$100,000. That is when the big Money brokers moved in and of course the a amp is that offered the highest interest were those nearest to insolvency but what did the Money brokers have to lose it was the joint responsibility of the Reagan administration and the democratic Congress dominated by Jim Wright Tony Coelho and Fernand St. Germain to do something about it. So they failed and the biggest bankruptcy in the history of Money was the result. A but George Mcgovern does t know nor did his adversary Why that $100,00 1 is still there. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady front and Center Why have you not recommended to president Bush that that atrocity be repealed what is George Mcgovern a favorite Reading you guessed it the Book about How the Rich get Richer Ami the poor get poorer a written by the Republican analyst Kevin it is disconcerting when plying that thesis to learn that when Ronald Reagan became pres ident the wealthiest 1 percent of americans were paing 18 percent of income taxes and Are now paying 28 percent. That when Reagan was elected the wealthiest 5 percent were paying 35 percent of All income taxes and Are now paying 46 percent. The top 50 percent of earners now account for 95 percent while the Bottom 50 percent account for 5 percent of total income tax collections that does no to sound like a plutocratic fix. And it in t easy in denouncing Supply Side to account for the Tael that Federal income tax receipts went up by 64 percent during Reagan a years in office but George Mcgovern can absorb it All. I Hough lie is canny and shrewd he is the genuine son of his methodist parents seeking to my use the beatitudes into Public policy and refusing to understand the great social negations incarnated m the collapse of the bet hit Wall. I.jr.1 i Quot it fit it a
