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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (182680)	2/15/2004 5:20:52 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) of 1578122

We were busy acquiescing to the will of the UN and withdrew to Kuwait. Everyone in the USA complained Bush Sr. should have ignored the UN and continued on to Baghdad. Your history is a little off...the Iran war came long before the invasion of Kuwait, and during that dirty war, during which he caused the massive casualties which BW and rather disingenous folks today refer to as shockingly brutal, we stood by and did nothing but make sure that it went on for eight years. Back then he was our SOB in the region. Do a little research and I promise you will be more than a little embarassed at the American politics of the time. Some of the people in power today were involved in assisting the man in perpetrating the very brutality we find so shocking today. I could continue to comment on your post...but generally speaking i think you know that we use the cover of the UN as conveniently as our need require it, to suit whatever political goal we happen to be pursuing...and sometimes we even ignore the UN to suit those same political goals. Al

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