It's not that it's sooo wrong... But it's sooooo hypocritical to criticize the US, when you're arming the very same people.
I wasn't a fan of the decision to go into Iraq, we had world wide support for the Afghanistan war, we should have stayed there and finished that mission. While Saddam was a douchebag, he was a douchebag who's strings we could pull pretty easily. There were a thousand other ways that Saddam could've bee toppled without the bloodshed (provided that we had an intellegence community that was worth a shit) Michael Grant wrote: >> Oh yeah, how soon people forget. I was actually going to hold onto that >> until later, but you beat me to it scott. heh. >> >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Scott Stewart wrote: >> >> >>> Lets not forget about the millions that Germany was raking in, building >>> Saddam's bomb shelters and the billions that France was making selling >>> arms to Iraq. >>> > > Starts with "D" and ends with "estraction." It's well known that I'm the > intellectual equivalent of a weavel, but how does this point have anything to > do with the U.S. in Iraq? > > Interesting that it's sooooo wrong that France and Germany did business with > Iraq. Because the U.S. would never do business with any country/group that it > was ideologically opposed. > > recent: > http://americawideopen.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/us-funds-al-qaeda/ > > a timeline starting in the 70's: > http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&startpos=0#western_support_for_islamic_militancy_20561 > > > and of course let's not forget that the us hoisted Saddam into power in the > first place: > http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/history/husseinindex.htm > > Just some food for thought when taking the high road on this issue. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281545 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
