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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
ah...the ploy of the desperate - P A T R O N I Z I N G those who hold positions contrary to your own...
What next, because I don't support the US in its invasion of Iraq, I am labelled a supporter of dictatorships? Please if you want to debate, that's great - but don't try to insult my intelligence or imply that I do not have a modicum of understanding of the history of that region. You'd be very surprised...
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I am not sure how I am in opposition to you? There are still people who are ignorant of the history of the US foreign policy in Iraq. I won't argue that the US gave Saddam the ability to manufacture chemical weapons that were used on the Iranians and Kurds because it served their purpose. The purpose was to help a so called "moderate" regime not get overrun by the Iranians allowing a Radical Muslim goverment control 1/2?? of the Mid - East Oil reserves. And yes a war that the so called "moderate" regime started.
But for some reason people have forgotten or ignored or do not know the fact that the US
stopped supporting Saddam about 1989-90. Was that not a good thing? Was that NOT the right thing for them to do?
As well....people have the blinders on to what the Europeans have done in Iraq at the same time and after the US stopped supporting Saddam.