To: cosmicforce who wrote (99198 ) 3/22/2005 8:47:14 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to It's true We threw our weight around in the ME in our dealings with the Shah. However contrary to your assertion: We supported and armed Saddam Hussein (those darn pictures of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand just won't go away) American arms to Soviet client Saddam were insignificant. and it started from the time that the American fleet sailed into Tokyo telling them they didn't have the right to keep to themselves! Perry showed them. And then we humiliated them at the Treaty of Versailles. ?? Japan gained Germany's concessions in China as a result of the Versailles treaty. Pres. Wilson did oppose this but gave in. I suppose that ineffectual opposition was an insult which justified war.We embargoed their oil because of their aggression against China. If we'd supplied Japan to aid their colonial war against China, you could count that among America's sins. Supply an aggressive expansionist government and be blamed for supporting bloody oppression or refuse to do so and be blamed for embargoing. Whatever America does its wrong seems to be your mindset in this argument. Look at how American propaganda portrayed the Asians: we made them look like buck-tooth monkeys. Just out of curiosity, what do you think would happen if Venezuela decided to embargo the U.S. tomorrow and got the ME states to agree to extend the embargo the next week or month? Other than liberals rejoicing, I'm not sure what would happen. We've been embargoed before. Didn't go to war over it. You do know that the plan to take Arab oil fields as an act of preemption existed under Regan, don't you? I'm not surprised. Such plans have undoubtedly been contingencies since at least the Truman administration. Fortunately, we haven't had to execute such plans.More so than the Chinese? In the pre-WWII years, China was not in a position to build an empire. I'm sorry but Japan's aggressive behavior prior to WWII was not merely a reaction to being marginalized or isolated. There is not one bit of relationship between Iraq and 9/11 and no one can show there is. No, there were no WMDs.
