I should also point out that all through the late 90's, 2000 and 2002, the Clinton officials and the Democratic congressmen made the same statements about Iraqi WMD and intentions as President Bush has. Some Democrats, in fact, made stronger comments about Saddam Hussein as an "imminent threat."
So what?
Hillary Clinton's position on Iraq is identical to that of W's. The Dems are lying militarists with a vested interest in inventing enemies of the state to justify their own aggrandizement of state power.
Geeze man, get a grip. If you can't see the difference you're in the wrong country to begin with. There is a difference in good and evil, I am real sorry you don't see that.
If they do it, it's "terrorism." If we do it, it's counter-terror.
If they do it, it's called "agression." If we do it, it's called "showing resolve."
If they do it, it's called "naked violations of international law." If we do it, it's called "looking out for our own interest."
When they do it, it's called "running gulags" and "torture rooms." When we do it, it's called "taking the gloves off."
When they do it, it's proof of their inherently evil nature. When we do it, it's just a "mistake" committed by "a few bad apples."
Yes, I see now. Thank you very much.
If I give you a gun to help you and show you how to use it am I at fault for your actions with the gun? Typical liberal belief.
Depends on whether whether you know the transferee to be a prohibited person.
U.S. DOCUMENTS SHOW EMBRACE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN IN EARLY 1980s DESPITE CHEMICAL WEAPONS, EXTERNAL AGGRESSION, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
"The National Security Archive at George Washington University today published on the Web a series of declassified U.S. documents detailing the U.S. embrace of Saddam Hussein in the early 1980's, including the renewal of diplomatic relations that had been suspended since 1967. The documents show that during this period of renewed U.S. support for Saddam, he had invaded his neighbor (Iran), had long-range nuclear aspirations that would "probably" include "an eventual nuclear weapon capability," harbored known terrorists in Baghdad, abused the human rights of his citizens, and possessed and used chemical weapons on Iranians and his own people. The U.S. response was to renew ties, to provide intelligence and aid to ensure Iraq would not be defeated by Iran, and to send a high-level presidential envoy named Donald Rumsfeld to shake hands with Saddam (20 December 1983)."
In 1988 the US Senate unanimously passed the "Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988," which would have imposed sanctions on Iraq. The legislation died when the House balked as a result of intense lobbying against it by the Reagan administration. Good old Reagan, a warm friend of many genocidal regimes and patron of several terrorist causes.
Clearly you're ill informed, look it up.
Saddam sent money to Palestinian suicide-bombers. Last time I checked, Israel wasn't our 51st state, so Saddam did not finance terrorism against "us."
I agree with you 100% Did you protest Nationbuilding in Haiti? Bosnia? If so, good! Consistency!
I opposed US interventions in Haiti, Bosnia, and Somalia. Didn't you see me and people like me all over the media articulating principled opposition to US intervention in those countries? Hint: the US media rarely allow onto the airways principled oppostion to US invention.
How many times did the US get hit and how many had died. Oh yea don't forget even happened in the US with that first Trade Center Bombing.
Calm down, Kim. Saddam didn't have anything to do with 9-11.
The whole region is guilty of supporting or ignoring terrorism against the US and Israel.
The retail terrorism committed by Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda over the past 30 years can't compare to the wholesale terrorism sponsored by the US gov and Israel. It's not even a drop in the bucket.
I'm sorry....it was Lenin, from a speech delivered at a meeting of activists of the Moscow organization of the r.c.p.(b.) December 6, 1920, from V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1966 Usefull idiots was one of the many translations (also "utter simpletons"), but it seems that this one just stuck...perhaps 'cause it makes such a nice soundbite and makes qa very valid point.
Did you yourself read it in that book? Or are you quoting someone who claims to have read it in that book?
The claim is a myth. See
this and
this.
"The reference librarian, an articulate and helpful woman named Heather, called me back exactly as promised and read me the following:
"Lenin, it is said, once described left-liberals and social Democrats as ‘useful idiots,’ and for years anti-communists have used the phrase to describe Soviet sympathizers in the West, sometimes suggesting that Lenin himself talked about ‘useful idiots in the West.’ But the expression does not appear in Lenin’s writing. We get queries on ‘useful idiots of the West’ all the time, declared Grant Harris, senior reference librarian at the Library of Congress, in the spring of 1987. We have not been able to identify this phrase among his published works."
The source of this passage is a work entitled "They Never Said It: a Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions", authored by Paul F. Boller Jr. and John George, published by Oxford University Press in 1989. [I have it on my bookshelf. It's an excellent book.] The text goes on to explain that the phrase apparently first appeared in a John Birch Society pamphlet labeling President Ronald Reagan a "useful idiot" because of some agreement he had negotiated with the Soviet Union.
In the source you reference, Lenin merely referred to Woodrow Wilson as an "utter simpelton" not for foolishly believing any promises made by the Soviet Union, but for the way that Wilson allowed himself to be manipulated by the British and the French.
The exact quote is –
“Nowhere has the Versailles Treaty been analyzed so well as in the book by Keynes, a British representative at Versailles. In his book Keynes ridicules Wilson and the part he played in the Treaty of Versailles. Here, Wilson proved to be an utter simpleton, whom Clemenceau and Lloyd George twisted round their little fingers.”
Given the consequences of Versailles (the punitive measure against Germany leading to economic chaos and the rise of national socialism), I'd say that in this particular instance, Lenin was correct in his assessment of Wilson.
NavyDoc wrote:
That treaty included no fly zones.
Utter nonsense, NavyDoc. That is pure BS which I have repeatedly exposed as BS. You clearly have not even read the treaty or you would not have posted something so obviously stupid. You say it's in the treaty? Fine. See
UNSCR 687 - 3 April 1991, Ceasefire agreement at the end of the Gulf. Read it and tell us where it establishes no-fly zones.
You see, NavyDoc, that's the problem with making these false statements either out of ignorance or reckless disregard for the truth thereof.
Do you know what happened when the US gov finally released the "secret documents" which supposedly proved that Saddam tried to buy uranium from Niger? Baradei at the International Atomic Energy Agency debunked the documents that afternoon just using google. Are we supposed to believe that our intelligence establishment with all its resources, its tens of billions of dollars in annual budget, couldn't do what it took the IAEA an afternoon to do?
I don't believe it. It is simply implausible. The other option is that there was deliberate deception. The Bush Administration would take anything - regardless of how utterly far-fetched - and use it to manipulate public opinion behind going to war with Iraq without regard for the truth thereof. That's called lying.
"We don't know whether it's true or false, but it supports out agenda, so we're gonna put it out there anyway, feed it to Judy Miller at The Times, and testify about it before Congress."
They lied even as other intelligence agencies were disagreeing with them about Iraqi's supposed WMD. See
Italy 'warned Saddam intelligence was bogus'.
"Italian intelligence warned the United States about bogus information on Saddam Hussein's nuclear ambitions at about the time President Bush cited them as a crucial reason for invading Iraq, an Italian parliamentarian said yesterday."
NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO??
US occupation is feeding the insurgency. My plan is simple: US out now.