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Politics : Let's Talk About the War -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: E who wrote (482)3/24/2004 5:18:42 PM
From: Thomas M.  Respond to of 486
 
Cobe's triumphantly presented statistics were grossly misleading

I agree with you.

We also provided targeting data and drew up battle plans at the time when he was using chemical weapons on a regular basis. Did we actually tell him where a battalion of Iranians were, and then did he kill them with gas? Zero evidence, because nobody has bothered to look. Likely, though.

Of course, the idea that American arms sales to Iraq were only a small percentage of the total is completely irrelevant. Sales of ANY level are indicative that we weren't concerned with human rights violations.

But, here is the real issue: As soon as the U.S. told the world that they should stop selling Saddam weapons, what happened? The world stopped selling him weapons. Enough said.

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