Re: Does Ron Paul have a chance?

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:04:28 GMT, "KRP" <web2457k@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>>>> Yes, Iraq was a secular state.  This was one of the reasons Hussein
>>>> had so few friends in the region.
>>>
>>>    Sorry. Hussein was a Sun'ni Baathist.
>>
>> But he ran the government as a secular entity.
>
>Bull****. He ran it as a tribal chieftain, Sun'ni - killing people of
other 
>faiths.  He just wasn't a particularly faithful Muslim. But NONE of the 
>other religious groups had much of ANY say in how things were done in
Iraq. 
>It was a fascist state. But make NO mistake it was a state run by the
Sun'ni 
>minority.

Is the US a Christian state because the president is a Christian?  Is
France a catholic state because they're the most numerous?

Yes, Saddam was a Sunni Muslim.  Saddam also yanked the teeth of both
churches in Iraq.  The churchmen were allowed no political power.  His
considerations were politically motivated rather than religious.  Iraq
had the largest middle class in the Arab/Islamic world.  Iraq was the
most educated nation in that group and women were freely able to get
educations and even own property.  The Burka was unheard of and even
the veil was in the country with few city women using it.

Your failure to differentiate between a secular and a religious
government does not credit any arguments you might make on any
subject.

Swill
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