Originally posted by Fixey
remove the word "territorial ambitions" and replace with "economic ambitions and world domination" and you have the USA today.....Do as your told or we will not trade with you/invade you/ embargo you is not the act of a government wanting freedom and democracy for all. IMO bombs are not the only form of terrorism....at worst the USA is a terrorist state, at best a schoolyard bully in need of a good hiding.....and just so im not mis-understood I think binladen SH et al should be lined up against the wall with all other fanatics AND the idiots that helped get them there power.
And this is the difficulty, aren't we - the so-called good guys - supposed to have higher standards than all the despots, dictators, tyrannical leaders ?
Isn't this what's supposed to make us different - the fact that we
are supposed to have democracy ?
The lies peddled about SH and Iraq were gross.
In 1991, his WMD were destroyed - his son and law told the CIA
this, when he defected to Jordan in 1995.
His son in law was charge of the WMD program.
Bush & Co started putting pressure on the UN about WMD.
The weapons inspectors couldn't find anything.
Bush insisted that they were there - so did Blair and Howard and
Aznar.
Then Bush & Blair came out with the line that Saddam was helped
BinLaden at 9/11 !!!!!!!!!!!!
It was an outrageous claim.
The you had Powell, lying to the UN with photographs of so-called
mobile WMD launch facilities - when in fact all he had were photographs of juggernauts !!!!!!!
I want to state that SH and BinLaden actions cannot be justified
under any circumstances.
SH's regime was truly grotesque and 9/11 was totally and utterly
inexcusable.
But Bush, Blair, Howard and Aznar lied.
They knew that what they were telling us were lies.
In my book, this is simply not good enough - we're supposed to be better than this.