Saddam: The monster we helped create

[nostamj]

The monster we helped create By Robert Scheer
For the White House, a complete investigation into those who abetted Saddam's crimes against humanity would prove an embarrassing two-edged sword.

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That administration's eye was not on the carnage from chemical weapons but rather the profit to be obtained from the flow of oil. In a later meeting with an Iraqi representative, as recorded in the minutes, "Eagleburger explained that because of the participation of Bechtel in the Aqaba pipeline, the Secretary of State is keeping completely isolated from the issue. Iraq should understand that this does not imply a lack of high-level interest." (Shultz had been chief executive of Bechtel before joining the Reagan administration and is currently a director of the company, which is signing contracts for work in Iraq as fast as U.S. taxes can be allocated.)

Minutes of that meeting and others in which the United States ignored Saddam's use of banned weapons while extending support to the dictator mock the moral high ground assumed by George W. Bush in defense of his invasion. If, as Bush II says, Saddam acted as a "Hitler" while "gassing his own people," during the 1980s, we were fully aware and implicitly approving, via economic and military aid, of his most nefarious deeds.

Saddam's crimes were committed on our watch, when he was a U.S. ally, and we knowingly looked the other way.



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[bryant69]

1. I've sprung this argument on Conservative Friends

And the response is usually something along the lines of "Well, aren't you happy we got rid of him? It sounds like all that information is just another reason to get rid of that vicious monster."

They have a bit of a leg up, because it's so easy to turn any discussion from "Well did Bush do the right thing in pulling us to war?" or "Did Bush lie to the American people?" or "Did the United States Prepare adaquetly for the post invasion phase?" to "Well, wasn't Saddam Hussein an evil man?"

Bryant
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[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Easy response

"Aren't you pissed the same people you keep voting for put this maniac into power to begin with?"

[papau]

3. Osama's Tape: "The creation of and buddy of (Bush) America is gone"

Seems Osama is laughing at our US Media treating Saddam's capture as a war against terrorism event.

Osama does not realize how the US has right wing GOP controlled media!

:-)

By the way, after the usual 48 hours, the CIA is saying that they agree with the German's and everyone else that it is Osama on the Jan 1, 2004 tape.

Gee that makes it 100% - all Osama tapes have been not quite sure they are Osama so as to make the news stale - followed by the US agreeing that indeed it was Osama.

I wonder if Osama's put down of Saddam as a Creature of, creation of, friend of, the United States will ever make it into US Media.

What a silly thought!

:-)

:toast:

:-)

[zbdent]

4. Who you callin' "we", kemosabe?

Besides, as I have stated for some time, if we were "at war with Iraq" since 1991, as *43 claims, then shouldn't Cheney be imprisoned for aiding and abetting the enemy clear up to (and including) 1998?

[Terwilliger]

5. a lot of fear about the truth of Saddam on both sides

Saddam was a product of Amertican foreign policy, not just Republican.