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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 11:15 AM
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Has our government ever formally admitted being wrong for supporting Iraq in the 80's?
Like some kind of a formal admission or apology that the US should not have supported Saddam Hussein in the 1980's? has that ever happened?
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 11:23 AM
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1. Was it wrong?
Although, letting the area subdivide earlier would have been okay, I guess. Saddam had a secular government in the middle east ..... He kept Iran busy fighting him. Wasn't that a win-win for us? The oil we wanted flowed.

What would have been right, in your opinion?
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 11:28 AM
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2. Neutrality
The US does not have to take sides on everything.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 11:38 AM
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4. Nice theory.
Still, they have all that oil.

It also assumes that all other oil-loving governments practice neutrality. Which is to laugh.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 11:34 AM
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3. I dunno - but selling arms to both sides simultaneously
seems wrong.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 11:39 AM
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5. But very neutral. THAT's what neutrality is.
Which side did you want us to sell arms to?
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 11:45 AM
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6. neither?
seriously our whole policy in the Middle East has been very messed up for a very long time. I think the nuetrality of not being involved might have been a better neutrality.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 06:55 PM
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8. Is it your belief that if we don't sell them weapons, they won't buy weapons?
Because that is not reality-based thinking.
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The2ndWheel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 11:55 AM
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7. Why?
At the time, the empire required it. That's all that matters.
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