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To: KLP who wrote (171560)	9/30/2005 3:47:15 PM
From: Sam	of 281500

No one has ever maintained that Saddam is/was "blameless" for any of the things you list. Except for people who are trying to justify this war and use it as a straw man to "argue" against those who are opposed to it. That said, he could have blamed for many of those things in the 80s and 90s as well. The Reagan admin did nothing but help the guy in his war against Iran, and even concocted excuses for him when one of his planes blew up a US ship (the Stark). Bush Sr didn't "blame" Saddam for anything until the Kuwait incident, which was almost encouraged by the Admin's own ambassador, April Glaspie, and was certainly "encouraged" by Kuwait's slant drilling into Iraqi territory (I've never seen a good explanation for that, and wonder if it wasn't a deliberate provocation, but nevermind that). And Bush Sr not only didn't help the Shia overthrow Saddam in the aftermath of Gulf I, he helped Saddam brutally quell those insurrectionists, killing hundreds of thousands of people. So, let's not get all pious now, shall we? There is plenty of blame to go around. And let's not forget the School of the Americas, where so many govt terrorists have been trained by our very own military and govt.

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