[extropy-chat] Re: US not right to invade say Iraqis

John K Clark jonkc at att.net
Tue Dec 20 07:15:20 UTC 2005


"Jeff Davis" <jrd1415 at yahoo.com>

> Saddam Hussein instructed his military forces to restore Kuwait to Iraqi
> sovereignty and protection.

Restore? Historically Kuwait was NEVER under Iraqi sovereignty except for a
few months in 1991.

> Yet had he been seen as a strong and respected Arab
> leader,

That's the problem, he was a strong and respected Arab
leader, the Arab street mobs loved Saddam

> how would this have been a problem? [...] And this is bad and scary
> because...?

Giving a very evil man trillions of dollars and putting him in charge of the
entire world economy and giving him nuclear weapons to boot, well call me
crazy but that just doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.

>  After all, the US has exotic and horrible weapons, and has
> used them,...was the first to use them.

Yes, we've had nuclear weapons for 60 years and yes we've actually used them
and yes I don't want nutcases like Saddam to have them too. If that makes me
unfair then so be it; I'm unfair and I'm proud.

> consider if the US had just not come to his rescue in
>'82, when Iran was poised to impose its own dose of
> regime change on Saddam.

Hindsight is always 20 20, I can see how it must have seemed like a good
idea at the time.  We probably should have supported both side and let them
kill each other.

  John K Clark









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