Re: an arteest

Agreeing on all points, Jim. Now if we could just get other seriously
deranged, dangerous individuals out of office, like, say, George Bush
tina

>Oh, there's no question in my mind that the US has done far more heinous
>things than it has ever admitted. And if we agree, just for a moment, that
>the US supplied Hussein with dual use chemicals and not chemical weapons,
>that doesn't exactly make the act innocent, either. It's not clear to me
>why
>we supplied those chemicals, but I think there's something else we need to
>keep in mind here:
>
>If the US is responsible for Hussein's use of chemical weapons during the
>80s
>because of what we traded with him, Russia and France are responsible for
>Hussein's atrocities in the 90s. They've been far closer and more
>significant trading partners with Hussein than the US has ever been, and
>opposition to a US invasion of Iraq on their parts probably has far more to
>do with them being cut out of the loop economically than any commitment to
>"diplomacy" or, if you want to accurately represent the apex of their
>hypocrisy, "peace."
>
>It's not that anyone is "good" or particularly better than anyone else.
>It's
>just that everyone is "bad." I'm glad Hussein is out of power -- very much
>so. I'm not at all happy how it came about. And I'm not talking, at all,
>about the deployment of the US military.
>
>Jim
>
>tina carson wrote:
>
> > Agreeing on all points except that we can't be sure the US didn't do far
> > more heinous things than it admits, though that hardly exonerates Saddam
> > tina
>
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