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Politics : Stop the War!
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To: Techplayer who wrote (3171)3/26/2003 10:53:43 AM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 21614
 
I don't think it's blaming the US, hardly - but he may well have been encouraged to think we'd turn a blind eye. After all, we had put him in power, supported him, armed his regime, etc...
In fact you might say that we had already let him move in, take the country, rape the women, slaughter the civilians and haul all of the national treasures in trucks back to Baghdad - but in Iraq.

It's common of dictators, especially military, to think anything more diplomatic than a bludgeoned 'NO' is actually agreement; Galtieri invaded the Falklands under the same misapprehension about the British stance.
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