...captured. Story here.
It was the US that backed Saddam.Originally posted by Dark Jedi
you realize that for about 20 years Bush backed Saddam
Originally posted by Zepp
It was the US that backed Saddam.
And they backed him for two primary reasons, he was the leader of, technically speaking, a secular democracy in the middle of the Middle East and he was opposed to Soviet Communism... the perfect ally in the Cold War. Communism fell and Saddam tried to cash in because he was on the winning side, the US didn't like that and Bush Sr. needed higher approval ratings... the Gulf War...
Then, after the war Saddam was put in a tight pickle, he needed to get rid of his WMDs but if he did the surrounding countries would see him as ripe pickings. Thus the deception mechanism was formulated. Whether he was trying to make it appear as if he had no weapons but actually did, which dubya claims, or he tried to make it appear as if he was hiding weapons but the weapons did not in fact exist, as Blix contends; is one of the most contraversial subjects out right now.
Since then slander has been mixed heavily into the American and in general Western media turning civil wars to masacres of peaceful uprisings, created stashes of nuclear weapons that never existed and implied that there was no doubt that he had WMDs...
Now he has been caught, and is either going to be tried by the losing side of the civil wars or by the vindictive US...
want WMD? Look within your own country
If you take the 12 most powerful countries after the U.S., add up their arsenal, they would still not be as powerful as the States.
kill over 500,000 Iraqi children
Originally posted by Borsk
How does this matter in relation to Iraq?
Originally posted by Nightwing
If you take the 12 most powerful countries after the U.S., add up their arsenal, they would still not be as powerful as the States.
their is a thing as too much power, especially in the arms of a puppet.
WMD are still WMD
Originally posted by Nightwing
That the States is too powerful for its own good.
I am not Anti-American. I have many American Friends. What I am though, is Anti-American Goverent. I think there's a big difference.Originally posted by AmShak
I know you are anti-states and that's fine, but you used to live here for a while, do you not have any idea how the government works?
the Allied forces thought it was alright to kill over 500,000 Iraqi children to punish saddam in the first iraqi war. Is that allright?