Commentary From the Sidelines of history
Commentary From the Sidelines of history
Originally posted by Hussein Baghdadi:
Second, I hate Saddam, he is tyrant, and I want to thank USA for what she did for him (capturing him).
Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
Do the Americans see in Syria an enemy, if they why?
Well, I see at least a few reasons:
"You are either with us or against us" Now that Afganistan and Iraq are down, we need another enemy We've got an extra $70 billion for the war on terror, so we must spend it somewhere Syrians don't celebrate Christmas, which means that they are condemned to hell unless liberated Oil Golan Heights We suspect that Syria has on-going efforts to develop nuclear weapons, this is for big boys only
Commentary From the Sidelines of history
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Originally posted by dennis zined:
I think he does mean Sept. 11. Some countries use the dd/mm/yyyy format.
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Originally posted by Joe Pluta:
Courage? Nah, just patience. And the more I try the easier it is to ignore rhetoric.
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Come on, Kevin, if you've got the answers, I for one want to hear them!
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Originally posted by Joe Pluta:
For example, tell us what you would have done differently in Kuwait. And how you would have handled Bin Laden. And then how to handle Israel and Palestine. And then your take on Afghanistan, and then Iraq. Tell us how you would handle the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization. What is your position on NAFTA? And what are your plans for North Korea? China? Pakistan?
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I can see that you don't follow politics much. Iraq was never an ally of the US. One need only look at the list of weapons in the Iraq army to see that. everything they use is either Russian or French made. During the Cold War, Saddam was a friend of the USSR not the USA. Kuwait has been a friend of the US for a long time. We never asked Kuwait to build a base there.Originally posted by Paul Wheaton:
Kuwait ... I gave up on watching politics and that sort of thing a long time ago, so I confess that these are the ramblings of an ignorant boob. I remember that Iraq was our ally. I remember something about how we tried to negotiate with Kuwait (before the war) something like "you have no army. if you let us set up a base here, we'll protect you." and Kuwait told us to piss off (I'm sure they probably phrased it more diplomatically). Saddam was our own creation, so when they first attacked, I thought it was essentially the united states that was attacking Kuwait. As the story our media presented us unfolded, I was pretty confused. I ended up just thinking "Well, we elect people to do this kind of thinking for us so we don't have to. They have far more info than we do, so best to just let them do their work." Since then I've heard theories and stuff, but it all sounds like you'll just get an ulcer thinking about it.
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