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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (94893)1/30/2005 1:46:47 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I have not evaded your point. I thought I already answered this question at least once. But here it goes again.

Our attack on Saddam was wrong, deceitful and illegal. We were the aggressor in a war. Even though Saddam was a big creep, we helped him in his rise to power and throughout his administration. It is questionable whether he actually gassed the Kurds (there are other plausible suspects). In any event, Saddam did not consider the Kurds his own people. Bush was always saying "He gassed his own people." This was an attempt to demonize Saddam to justify our attack (for which the planning started a few days after Bush got into office, not after 9/11). Another lie on Bush's part. We support dictators all over the world who are just as bad when it is in our strategic interest to do so. That stopped being the case for us in Iraq.

So for me the four-decade support of Saddam by the CIA makes our policy towards Iraq today hypocritical, at best. What should we have done the last several years in Iraq? We had Saddam cornered. We should have just waited it out. There was no way he could have harmed anyone, really, more than our invasion--with the creation now of more terrorists than there are security forces, and the deaths of at least thousands and thousands of civilians--has harmed the security of the entire planet.
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