>>> Charles, I haven't used this word before but F*CK YOU!
Thanks, but I'm straight.
>>> It is common knowledge that the U.S. government felt that Sadaam Hussein WAS their best bet.
It was common knowledge, in fact policy, that Lon Nol was our best bet in Cambodia. So what? That is my point. (You are too young to know who Lon Nol was, I'm guessing...)
>>> No, it's something that is established on the blood and lives of patriots. you don't achieve it by waiting for someone to give it to you.
Actually, there have been plenty of Arab and Kurdish and Iranian patriots willing to shed their blood for democracy. Typically, we make them promises and then let people like Saddam take them whenever it suits the Realpolitik theories and financial needs of the lamos who have run policy in this area in the past.
>>> Charles read my lips...I said policy...not rhetoric.
If there was rhetoric, it was US rhetoric. It was suffusing everything on the media in those days, and it was coming from the government. If it was a lie, it was an official lie. Lies like that are a matter of policy. But they should not be able to lie without punity in a matter like this.
FWIW, there is a lot of aggressive language on this forum, and so personal emotional self control is called for at times. That's just how it is in a political free-for-all.
Cheers,
Chaz |
