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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Techplayer who wrote (3171)	3/26/2003 10:48:33 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Granted that the person who does an act is the one to shoulder the most blame for how it turns out, we are only pointing out that the US did mislead Saddam into thinking that it was a war he could win. That is nudging him in the direction of the invasion. Did Saddam really think that the US would just let him move in, take the country, rape the women, slaughter the civilians and haul all of the national treasures in trucks back to Baghdad? I guess he learned his lesson of not trusting the words of US officials now. He didn't know it then. By the way, you forgot to add "steal the incubators and kill the babies". And "haul national treasures in trucks" was funny. Do you really mean that? I mean, you MUST know that the only national treasure of Kuwait that is important enough to justify a war would leak from trucks and it is not exactly a commodity that Iraq lacks. I hope.

To: Techplayer who wrote (3171)	3/26/2003 10:51:18 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

MUCH less of a stretch than anything coming out of the PNAC propaganda machine for an entire year now. If a relatively tiny neighboring country was slant drilling into Alaskan oil reserves and refused to stop and nobody objected to an armed solution from the US but later came back with a fake story that the US was tossing babies out of incubators into the streets as another powerful country went to war against the US to halt the armed solution there would be huge protest out of the US that we were lured into it.

To: Techplayer who wrote (3171)	3/26/2003 10:53:43 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

I don't think it's blaming the US, hardly - but he may well have been encouraged to think we'd turn a blind eye. After all, we had put him in power, supported him, armed his regime, etc... In fact you might say that we had already let him move in, take the country, rape the women, slaughter the civilians and haul all of the national treasures in trucks back to Baghdad - but in Iraq. It's common of dictators, especially military, to think anything more diplomatic than a bludgeoned 'NO' is actually agreement; Galtieri invaded the Falklands under the same misapprehension about the British stance.

To: Techplayer who wrote (3171)	3/26/2003 3:00:40 PM
From: Spytrdr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

how is that different from what is happening now? using your own words: USA in defiance of international law and world opinion moves in, takes the country, rapes the women, slaughters the civilians, and hauls all of the national oil treasure in pipelines and ships back to America. ___ <<Did Saddam really think that the US, or anyone else in the world, would just let him move in, take the country, rape the women, slaughter the civilians and haul all of the national treasures in trucks back to Baghdad?>>