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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (293103)9/4/2002 3:23:09 PM
From: Rock_nj  Read Replies (4) of 769670
 
Proof?!? Do you have your head in the sand? I'm talking about historical facts that anyone can look up. Iran had a budding Democracy in the early 1950s that we crushed when they moved to nationalize their oil supplies. I know people talk about the cold war and the Soviet threat, but that was just cover for us to install a puppet regime under the Shah of Iran, so we could control their oil supplies. It's also a fact that our CIA trained Iran's secret police SAVAK in the techniques of torture. Are these the actions of a country concerned with suffering peoples?

How about Guatemala in the 1950s? They had a peaceful democracy that we crushed when they threatened to nationalize lands used by the United Fruit Company (Oh my god! Imagine a country actually wanting to control it's own resources!) and installed a brutal dictator that resulted in a decades long civil war that caused the suffering and death of 100,000s of Guatemalans. Again, the red scare was used to justify this coup, but what resulted was far worse than any phantom communist menance.

A case can be made for taking Saddam out, but to relieve people's suffering? History has shown that the U.S. is not terribly concerned with people's suffering when it interferes with our economic interests.
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