Dear Clueless,
Re: For example, in the last post on the subject I cited Saddam's "past behavior and his record of statements and propositions made to other leaders in the region" as evidence of his likely future actions.
OK, since you don't bother to read lets get some facts into your peabrane. First of all, Saddam Hussein became a CIA operative in 1959 and has been on the payroll ever since. In the 1960s, his role expanded from street thug to executioner with the CIA handing Saddam and his henchmen a list of 5,000 Iraqi leftists and secular progressives who were promptly butchered by Saddam for pay by the CIA.
Are we beginning to get the idea here, sonny boy?
In the 1970s, the repression of socialists, progressives and other various Iraqi patriots continued with the full force of Hussein's anti-democratic Ba'ath Party and full agreement by the CIA. Then, of course, after the overthrow of the repressive monarchy (another friend of the CIA) in Iran in 1979, the CIA and the White House went on a full charm offensive with Hussein and cajoled him into a bloody stalemated war with Iran, where the CIA and the White House provided arms and assistance to both sides of the fight in order to bleed both of them. It was a totally cynical maneuver by the cynics who run the U.S. government, and unsurprisingly, the American public did not have a clue what was going on. And unfortunately the blood was too hot on both the Iranian and the Iraqi sides of the conflict for those two neighbors to figure out who their real enemy was and is. I think they have that sorted out now.
In the run-up to the first Gulf War, Hussein asked for permission to punish Kuwait from the U.S. Ambassador and was given total assurance that the U.S. "had no opinion on Arab-on-Arab conflict" (Amb. April Glaspie in conference with Saddam Hussein, July 25, 1990.) And then George H.W. Bush double-crossed Hussein.
So, sonny boy, don't you even begin for a second to think you can get away with your superficial, ridiculously naive regurgitations about "programs and intentions". Who do you think you are kidding? No one on this board is as naive as you are. How in the world do you expect to convince anyone here, since everyone knows more than you do and is unwilling to fool themselves as you seem so abundantly suited to do. The guy who can fool himself is a special case. That's you.
Or, as Warren Buffett puts it, "if you sit down at a poker game and haven't figured out by the third hand who the sucker is, it's you." |
