In edit: WOW! Nightline is actually doing a piece on the US_Iraq relationship of the past 20 years! I was wondering if anyone would have the courage to mention it. The leader is, "Saddam hasn't changed, US interests have changed." Let's see what they do.
Yes, I saw. The brevity of the rally surprised me too, but the Bushies were adamant about not believing Saddam. With reason, to be sure. It is remarkable to me how they are playing this--they have obviously (obvious to me, anyway) been waiting and watching for an opening to get Saddam. They've not only got their opening, their timing was politically astute. Someone wrote Bush a good speech. No one has brought the not so convenient historical facts that the US helped Saddam build some of his WMDs back in the 80s, or the one you have alluded to several times, when that diplomat (ambassador? I forget her name and title) told Saddam that Iraq-Kuwait relations were an "internal" affair, not US business. Or that the US didn't complain too loudly when Iran and Iraq were bashing each other, in fact we were helping them do it and cheering them on while it was happening. Or that no one complained very strenuously when Saddam supposedly actually use his WMDs back in the 80s on "his own people" as we now (and back in 91) so loudly proclaim. We point to our success in rebuilding Germany and Japan as democracies, but somehow fail to remember the many countries in our own backyard where we failed for so long and actively supported thugs often as bad as Saddaam (e.g., Haiti, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Chile, Argentina, and more).
Yeah, I know, no politics. But the traffic here is so minimal, I thought I'd indulge a little. Even if it does generate some "What bullshit" responses from others.
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