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Originally posted by Thoran:
Well I think you get the prize for oversimplification of a VERY complex issue. Even if it was as simple as the US supporting Iraq to get at Iran, the US didn't have ANYTHING to do with the Iran/Iraq war. You must be one of the gang that thinks it's ok to blame car makers when someone drinks and drives and kills someone eh? No need for personal or national responsibility these days... because we can always blame someone else.
The cold war was still in full swing in those days, there were a myriad of other issues in play... and Iran was our ENEMY. Perhaps we should have simply allowed Iran to run roughshod over the whole of the Middle East... that certainly would have resulted in fewer casualties... RIGHT? Perhaps we should have let the Soviets do whatever they wanted in the region and stayed out of it... that would have save MANY lives... RIGHT?
So many armchair Diplomats... so little time.
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No need for flames Thoran... I am all for National Responsiblility and i think that Saddam should be taken down. But I also think that National Responsibility would include some kind of acknowledgement from those governments that helped to create his regime.. If you had a hand in creating the mess...you should have a hand in cleaning it up. Thats why i do approve of USA's current stance on Iraq. I'm not looking to
blame the US for the problems over there...Obviously Hussein is the evil one here.
Iran wasnt running roughshod over the whole middle east..it was Iraq that started that war in an attempt to capture most of the persian gulf but he met greater resistance from the Iranians than anticipated.
EDIT> i said originally that Iraq started the war to capture the whole persian gulf...where i meant mainly the eastern side of it.
[ 09-12-2002, 02:59 PM: Message edited by: Djinn Raffo ]