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9 comments on We Knew This Already...Didn't We?

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Engineer-Poet on September 2, 2005 - 7:36pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Garbage on most counts.
  • Sanctions were being subverted by numerous agencies (does the oil-for-food scandal ring any bells?) and France and others were trying to have them dropped entirely.  Strengthen them, easily?  Whatever you're smoking, it's better than anything the Bushies have got.
  • Hussein, reformed?  With his murderous and sadistic sons being groomed to succeed him?
  • Yes, the oil DID flow.  Hussein murdered anyone who would have tried to stop it.  Are you saying that we are handicapped by morals and should have let Saddam do the job, since he is not?
  • You mean, like our example in Iraq was so bad for Lebanon? <cough>
  • Iraq is a long-term prospect.  Our oil security needs would have been better served by moving away from oil after 1991, but the American public wasn't paying attention and threw out pols who were.
  • Saddam worked with Al Qaeda to attack the Kurds.  Do some searching on "Ansar al-Islam" for more information.  Several Kurdish leaders and many peshmerga were killed by Al Qaeda affiliates financed and armed by Saddam Hussein.
You can't get anywhere while you are denying facts.  Just because Bush denies different ones than you do does not mean your POV is superior.
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odograph on September 2, 2005 - 8:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Sanctions sucked - but did they suck less?
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