Re: Laying it on a bit thick, are we....
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the world is full of Evil, Evil men whose sole purpose is to kill.
-- sort of like Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush...
;-)
Well, perhaps not their sole purpose. First they are lining their pockets with blood money, grabbing as much power and control as they can, spreading death and destruction by getting us into an endless and unwinable war, ruining the economy, and trashing the US constitution while they are at it...
The problem with people some people, (even though you seem like a decent enough guy) is that they seem to unquestionably believe these liars and thugs in Washington. Whether it's because you can't conceive that our leaders would actually lie, cheat, steal and murder to gain their ends, or because they cloak themselves in the sanctity of the Christian faith, somehow you Bushies can't see (or won't see) what is so painfully evident to the rest of us.
As to Kuwait, yes, Saddam invaded. Stupid tyrant. He should have simply let the Kuwaitis with their US oil partners keep on slant drilling into Iraqi territory.
However, the atrocities broadcast here in the US (by Iraqis on Kuwaitis) to get Congress to give Bush I the authority to go to war were fabrications. Not that Saddam wasn't a brutish monster, however he has enough of his own crimes to answer for without making up stories about him to get the go ahead for a war.
Saddam was Iraq's problem, not ours. We had no business being there. No WMD, no treat to the US. Period.
And if our justification is going after genocidal maniacs, try the Sudan. They have killed off 2 million of the populous over the past dozen years. They make Saddam seem like an enlightened despot.
As for the good deeds the US is doing in Iraq, hell, it's the least we can do. We destroyed their country. I expect we should make some effort to put it back together. However these billions and billions spent on munitions from USA defense contractors (that most all the administration official have stock in) to blow it up ...to the billions and billions given to Bechtel and Haliburton. (also in the administration's leaders stock portfolios) to build it back up have cost -- in terms of BORROWED MONEY -- half a trillion dollars.
Doesn't that bother you? Especially since the war profits are going to 'your' top republican politicians and their backers?
Can't you guys see this, or don't you care?
Can you justify it? I would be interested to know....
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