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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: lorne who wrote (1208)1/21/2005 11:25:46 AM
From: cirrus  Respond to of 224729
 
I don't know that there ever was a "formal agreement" to use military force to back the Shiite rebellion against Saddam, but the Shiites took Bush's urgings as... an assurance that the US would support them.

When America didn't... they felt like they had been left to twist in the wind.