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Originally posted by wonton
Did you know that we helped him kill all those people and stood by while he did it? The " 1 million killed by Saddam" figure that is being thrown around the media these days relates mostly to his invasion of Iran in the 1980s. The US not only supported that war, we sold him weapons to fight it, we supplied him with intelligence reports to improve his battle plans, we sold him 80% of the chemicals and biological agents that tipped his warheads.
Saddam AND THE USA together are the ones that killed almost 1 million Iranians and Iraqis. And that is a fact.
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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When Saddam gassed 2,000 Kurds in 1988, he used chemical weapons supplied by American labs. Saddam viewed the Kurds as his enemy only because the CIA armed them and led them into a failed invasion of Baghdad in the late 1970s to help our friend, the Shah of Iran. And when Saddam gassed them in 1988, President Reagan and Vice President Bush continued to happily arm him to the teeth with MORE chemical and biological agents.
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American companies (some of which were repremanded) supplied materials that they were not supposed to supply, but some also supplied materials that they were allowed to supply. Saddam used the materials to make chemical weapons. The companies, nor the government supplied Iraq with chemical weapons, period.
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It is a total joke. When Iraq presented that 12,000 page report to the US just a few months ago, the US censored THOUSANDS OF PAGES that detailed all the american companies, from Lockheed to Monsanto, that have supplied Iraq for years - EVEN UP TO 1992, AFTER THE GULF WAR!!!!
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Certain parts of pages were blacked out to protect US companies, but also to protect French and German companies, and in addition to protect knowldege of how to make WMD's.
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Now on that Niteline broadcast, they briefly presented the "think tank" that is responsible for the current war plan and referenced their reports. I posted those very reports in this forum a couple of weeks ago. Read the reports. They center more around oil reserves and oil pipelines than anything else. They admit that Iraq will be used as a staging ground for US domination of that area and its energy reserves. THAT is the conspiracy because the major admitted reason we are going to war is barely discussed at all in the mainstream media. All we get is is this crap about WMD (which have yet to be proven to even exist). That is a total red herring.
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You seem to think that the government should lay out in detail every single reason they have for invading Iraq. No administration has ever done this and none ever will. They present reasons that they perceive may be acceptable to their people of the nation as well as the world.
The world is "real" and not a world of white hats and black hats but a lot of gray hats. It is not, and never will be, a world where truth is truth, and nothing but the truth. Anyone that keeps informed and has the intelligence to read between the lines has some insight as to what is really going on.
It is the duty of this government and any government in the world to protect its citizens from enemies and to protect its economic interests, in the present, as well as being forward looking. Fortuantely the USA is forward thinking and has the power to act in, what it perceives to be, its best interests. Some countries do not have this ability. The world is the real world and not some make believe, or idealistic world.
In addition WMD's are not a total red herring it is just another reason among many reasons.