Originally posted by Boroda
And we never supplied anyone with WMD.
Hey the USA
only sold Saddam $500 million worth, then gave him intelligence on how to best use his new WMD toys against the Iranians.
The home of the brave sold or sent biological samples to Iraq that included gnarly items like (humm the National anthem while reading this for dramatic effect) Anthrax, West Nile virus, Botulism, Brucella melitensis, and clostridium perfringens... which damages major organs & cause gangrene respectively.
But the US .gov wanted to be friendly & fair, I guess, and promptly sold weapons to a "terrorist" regime; Iran (Iran / Contra)... at the SAME TIME we were supporting Saddam in his war against Iran.
See how warm, fuzzy and friendly US "leaders" are? we'll happily supply both sides with cool stuff to kill each other with... but if another country dares do the exact same things the US .gov does, our politicians wet themselves with phony moral outrage. I wonder if they're just being bold face hypocrites, liars.. or if they're just completely ignorant of history?
Imagine if we thought our kids the "moral values" of our .gov?, we'd be teaching our kids it's ok to take another kids stuff, then slap him for complaining about it. We'd also be teaching them that if we knew of two other kids who wanted to fight, it'd be perfectly ok sell each kid the weapons necessary for them to kill eachother... then lie about it.