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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (24421)	5/20/2003 1:34:23 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

According to a Gallup International poll, in no European country was support for a war carried out "unilaterally by America and its allies" higher than 11 percent. commondreams.org

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (24421)	5/21/2003 5:11:27 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Let's start in 1959. The CIA contacted a street thug named Saddam Hussein in Baghdad with a list of leftists and communist sympathizers that the CIA wanted eliminated. Hussein's first "bag job" for the Agency. Assuming I even accept your claim, minus no documentation, are you trying to assert that hiring some low-level thug to do some "wet work" amounts to putting them into power... And WHO ELSE was paying Saddam??? Do you think the CIA was able to maintain total control over him?? These guys take money from whoever will pay them... Especially when it's the French and Russians... Your problem Raymond, is that you have NO OBJECTIVITY. You incessantly focus ONLY on what past US administratons have done, without laying any blame at the doorstep of OTHER countries who have done FAR WORSE. After all, the French and Russians tried to preserve Saddam's regime in order to guarantee access to future oil exploration opportunities AS WELL AS TO protect the BILLIONS IN DEBT owed to their respective countries. Wouldn't it make sense that if Saddam were still the US's "man in baghdad" that these loans would have been made by the US and not the French/Russians?? But none of that matters to you.. All you see is any "evil", no matter how insignificant in the grand scheme of things, committed by the US. But you ignore, if not even provide tacit support, the monstrous evils committed by other nations. Hawk