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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment.
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (900)8/13/2006 3:48:13 AM
From: maceng2Read Replies (1) of 1695
 
I don't believe for a minute that it is because we have treated ME'ers monstrously. Most of the problems in the ME stem from the sick religious mindset held by many people there.

One has to question the intelligence of contaminating a whole region with DU MUNITIONS. Even if the munitions are not responsible for a high rate of cancers and birth defects (unlikely), loading up a country supposedly full of religious nutballs with DU rounds sounds like a recipie for disaster. Unless you are a weapons manufacturer of course, where war and strife are good for business. In the same way, a high price for oil only makes things better for the oil companies.

Meanwhile we continue to feed our armed forces into a situation that will only deteriorate into a slaughterhouse.

Both in Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon in Iran.

As far as Iraq is concerned, the worst thing we ever did to that nation was allow Saddam to retain power in 1991, when it would have been an opportune time to overthrown him. I blame an excessive concern for world opinion, which is almost always wrong, as well as an excessive reliance on morally cynical realpolitik ideas

You are conveniently forgetting that Saddam Hussain was on "best buddy" status with both the USA and UK until he invaded Kuwait. We helped put Saddam Hussain in power by brutal elimination of his political opposition. The UK government under Thatcher even shipped him supergun components plus many, many armaments and WMD materials to suppress his own people, and those of the region.

It has also been shown CONCLUSIVELY that he complied with all WMD destruction UN requirements, and that all rumors to the contrary are BOGUS. i.e CONCLUSIVELY PROVED TO THE WORLD much to the embarrassment of the UK and USA military hawks.

Finally, wrt the Iraq sanctions. They were a disaster from start to finnish. How many USA law suits would be filed if say, a foreign country stopped the supply of fuel filters to ambulances for a ten year period? How many deaths would have occurred from problems of getting an ambulance to an accident in the USA??

In short, we should clean our own house wrt "sick mindset" before pointing the finger at others.
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