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Originally Posted by Seth
I find it funny how this man has the so called freedom to express himself(stupidly...assault is a crime) without being cut up and given to his family in bags......and at the same time, Saddam would never have had the power or resources to perform such acts of cruelty and violence if it weren't for the military support given by none other than rumsfeld himself(1983)...those ra******* iranians just needed to die. Think it over for a while. Freedom loving country enables mad dictator to persecute for decades, only to turn and fully denounce, pursue, and eventually sentence him to death(yeah whatever it was an 'iraqi court')........wtf prof s I think you're living in an american dreamworld.
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1) Racist comments are NOT tolerated and its not to happen again.
2) Seth, you make the common mistake of looking at the past through the lens of the present. Iraq was not our biggest concern in the 80's, it was the USSR and Iran was buddy-buddy with them. Add to that Russia's push into Afghanistan, and Iraq was one of the only forces at the time that was thought able to prevent a consolidation of power in the Middle East which would have given Russia incredible resources (oil) for continued expansion.
Now does that make what happened right? No, but it makes it more complicated than you portray. America had a completely different foreign policy strategy at the time (enemy of my enemy is my friend) that empowered other dictatorships as well, and that is unlike what we have now even when Rumsfeld was with Bush. The Bush doctrine is not the Reagan doctrine when it comes to foreign policy. The situations are different and the decisions are different.
Administrations change, strategies change, and many times we have to deal deal with the mistakes of the past today, just as Obama is going to have to deal with the mistakes made in Afghanistan by the Bush administration.
You seem to live in a world where there are no mis-judgements or imperfect solutions; only golden truth and despicable deviousness. That is a hard and unforgiving way to look at the world that only breeds anger and paranoia.