[kj] Congrats Obama

[Brendan]

You're both right, however none of the US collusion in terms of Saddam
changes the fact that he was a genocidal loonbag, which is Mik's point and
it's a valid one.

It's just shameful that the 'States had anything to do with aiding him,
the subsequent demonising was just hypocritical and opportunistic. An
enemy was needed to justify US presence in that region. (IMO, I'm not
writing a book about this stuff or anything ;).


> You got it, Oliver. Also, here's another little thing the mainstream media

> fails to mention: Saddam went into Kuwait in 1990 because, essentially,

> our

> government told him he could.

> Sorry, Mik, but this country was happy to look the other way while Saddam

> killed his own people, because he was "our SOB" during the 1980s.

> And none of that will ever justify the invasion of Iraq.

>

> kw.

> San Diego

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>> When he was massacring his own people, a lot of that was done with US

>> support. Also, the targets of one of his pogroms were the Kurds, whose

>> plight the US really played up in the lead-up to Gulf War 1. The Kurds

>> are

>> also being massacred by US ally Turkey, which has US air bases in its

>> southeast. We should overthrow them, too, no?

>>

>> -Oliver

>>

>>

>> Mik Raven wrote:

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>>> Is it just me, or does eveyone forget how Saddam was a genosidal despot

>>> who was quite happy to massacre his own people?

>>>

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