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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (219150)	1/16/2002 4:30:21 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) of 769670

>>You don't think stopping one day short of Bagdad (when the Saudis whistled) might have contributed any to our current 'Saddam' problems, do you? The consensus was that the Iraqi military woud kill him. The idea was to save American lives. Also, the US was operating under a UN mandate - and what you describe was not allowed. Bush43 did not make that mistake. The Libs don't like it - they call it "unilateralism". It was Clinton who allowed Saddam to live when internal groups were willing to kill him. It was Clinton who let Saddam refuse UN inspections. >>Or earlier, tilting towards Iraq and turning a blind eye to their biological and chemical warfare developments... or even earlier, facilitating armament resupply during the 10 year long, murderous Iran war. You are very naive. The US supported Iraq in that war to keep Iran from being the monolith in that part of the world. Failed ex prez Carter totally screwed up in Iran but now the people remember the Shah with fondness. Carter should be so lucky. >>Since it has been official US policy ever since 1929 (stated or otherwise) to support authoritarian strongman types in the oil producing regions of the middle east... just so long as they kept the oil flowing... and oppose anyone who might upset the apple cart (popular leader or otherwise).... More accurately, it has been US policy to prevent worse people from taking over and controlling the region. >>That this was also OUR foreign policy for low these many years, (and now it has reared back and bit us in the ass) merely shows a typical American lack of foresight... something that has been much commented on in this century. You are the one who has offered no foresight. You offer hindsight - bad as you are at it. Seems if you had had your way the US would be in a real mess today.

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