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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: aladin who wrote (81149)3/11/2003 10:32:31 AM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
There was absolutely nothing in the alliance to require us to actively prevent civilian population to reach arms depots in southern Iraq (but we did it anyway so as to keep Saddam around). Nor was there any reasons that we could not shoot down Iraqi gunships that were firing on civilians. The war had not ended yet. We were free to shoot down whatever Iraqi gunship near Kuwait that we wanted.

Also, you minimize the role of US in the war. We provided intel for Saddam to help him with his chemical attacks. We asked Saudi to give Saddam the money he needed to buy those French and Russian weapons you talk about. We asked UN to stop considering Iran's complains about the Saddam's use of chemical weapons (a ban that had been in effect since World War One) and when none of that was enough, we came within inches of actually fighting side by side with Saddam.

The relation of all this to the present is that our predicament is of our own making. And until we understand why we continue to be so very wrong in our foreign policy from helping Khomeini to oust Shah, to helping Saddam to fight Khomeini, to helping the Taliban and bin Ladin (yes, they too were the State department's children) we will be repeating horrible mistakes over and over again.

I can very well see how in 15 years there will be a debate about how we saved those ungrateful bastards in Iraq and now they are bent on destroying us...just wait and see.

ST

PS The self rightous Europeans should all be hung for their crimes against humanity. The Brits have the honor of making it to the top of that list fallowed closely by the French. But how is that related to this debate? We are not going to war because the French or Russians are against it...so stay focus on our side of the table.
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