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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
by saying that people exaggerated the timeframe or willfully choose to ignore the timeframes, and esp. by spelling things out in caps, like I am some grade schooler...
Saddam didn't become a dictator after 1989-90: he was a dictator well before that, his so-called 'rape rooms' existed before that, the mass executions occurred before that. All under the watchful eye of the US...what happened then, what happened with the mujahideen, what will happen with the new generation of jihadis are all part of the blowback the US continues to generate through their missteps.
You want to know why the euros aren't being called out? Because 1) they knew that the war was not legal (the British people knew this too, and Blair chose to ignore the voice of the people, in effect, his employers) and 2) they are not involved in the war!
This has been a US led, US directed, and US invented proposition from the get go...The Project for the New American Century has proven to be as worthless as the paper its written on...
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For someone who complains about lack of knowledge about American Foreign policy in Iraq you sure miss a whole gaping whck of it. A full 12 years! As well you input the Soviet-Afghan war there too. So much for a timeline or placing what happened into context.
We start here...
Saddam didn't become a dictator after 1989-90: he was a dictator well before that, his so-called 'rape rooms' existed before that, etc...
Then you jump a full 12 years...
This has been a US led, US directed, and US invented proposition from the get go...The Project for the New American Century has proven to be as worthless as the paper its written on..
What happened to the years inbetween those? Don't they count too? Or should we ignore those?
As for your European comment....since they didn't join the Iraq invasion they get off scottfree for doing what the Americans did?
You ignored my questions. The American stopped supporting Saddam. Wasn't that the right thing to do? Wasn't that a good thing to do?