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PuppyBismark Donating Member (200 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:27 AM
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So did we invade China during the Vietnam War for supplying them weapons
Where did all those Mig fighters come from the North Vietnam forces used? Where did North Vietnam get all its weapons? Seems to me it was China and the USSR. Did we invade them? I don't think so?

Perhaps this is similar to what Shrub is saying about Iran?

:grr:
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:30 AM
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1. No, but we did bomb the hell out of Cambodia because it was
being used as a transportation route. The bombings were horrendous and hidden from the American people due to the remote site of the targets. We destroyed that country and set the stage for the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge.
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John1956PA Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:37 AM
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2. Good point, PB. Also, Reagan supplied stinger missiles to the Afghan rebels.
Those stinger missiles in the hands of the Afghan rebels downed many Soviet helicopters, but the USSR did not beat the war drum against the U.S. for having supplied those missiles.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:39 AM
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4. We also trained OBL in terror tactics there...n/t
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:38 AM
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3. When do we bomb ourselves? We supplied both Iran and Iraq with weapons between
1980-1988. We're the world's number one supplier of weapons. And how can anyone use supplying weapons to someone as an excuse to start a war when the USA refuses to acknowledge the thousands of Palestinians who have been killed by weapons supplied to Israel?

I'll bet that more US troops have been killed with things that indirectly came from the US than Iran.
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