To: Bonefish who wrote (888194 ) 9/16/2015 11:09:43 AM From: Broken_Clock Respond to Just for fun, let us try to answer the following questions mostly for the benefit of our hawkish, and totally “patriotic” members of Congress; people like Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Robert Menendez, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and even the brave Junior Senator from Arkansas, Tom Cotton: Which state supported the then Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, and provided him with weapons and strategic cover to invade Iran in 1980, which resulted in the deaths of over a million Iranian and Iraqis during eight years of that war of attrition, which the Iranians call the Imposed War? Imposed by whom, I wonder? Under which state’s flag was an Iranian passenger airliner shot down killing 290 mostly women and children over the Persian Gulf in 1988, for which Iran never received an apology? Which state or states are responsible, directly or through their proxies, for the assassinations of Iranian scientists, as well as Iranian border guards? Which state has for nearly thirty years expressed its intentions to bring about a regime change in Iran, something that is clearly in violation of the United Nations Charter? Which state has been continuously threatening to attack Iran militarily? Which state was most responsible for creating unrest in the Middle East by invading and continuing to maintain military activities in the Middle East since 1990? Which state has been and remains the world’s Number-One supplier of arms to the turbulent region of the Middle East? The actions of which state have been responsible for the creation of groups such as the Taliban, Al Qa’eda, Da’esh (IS), and others now considered as terrorists? Which state is now most actively engaged in fighting these same groups, as they do present the greatest danger to its security? Finally, name one (or more, if you are a creative thinker) benefit to America’s strategic interests that America’s financial, military, and diplomatic support for Israel has provided?
