AKIron: I really have to wonder Miko, that if you despise the US so much, why the hell are you living here?
If you do not make distinction between US government and american nation, you are probably brainwashed beyong my help.
Anyway, do you not believe that US provided Iraq with chemicals and components and targeting info, or do you not think it was a regrettable act?
Dowding: Miko2d strikes me as an ultra-capitalist. He takes nothing from the State and pays his taxes from the sounds of it.
You are mostly right. While I admit I've spent a few months on welfare, I've been working since 1991 and for the last half-dozen years I was in the top 5-2% of income and paid a disproportionately great share of taxes.
Also I do use state and State and City services - having no choice in that matter since private competition in education, transit and other areas is not allowed.
BTW, there is nothing hyppocritical or contrary to my libertarian beliefs in me accepting welfare or government services - even if I had developed those libertarian beliefs by that time, which I didn't.
I believe in voluntary transactions between informed individuals/institutions and in compliace with the law. Offering me welfare rather than a loan might have been counterproductive on the government's part but it was certainly voluntary and I was under no moral or legal obligation to refuse that money - even though I later came to believe that such system should be legally discontinued in favor of private charities. But if anyone wants to attribute to me the general "devil-take-the-hindmost", "natural selection" attitude, be my guest.
Puke: Miko, The nuclear reactor Russia was working with Iraq on tops any poison gas.
I hope you are not operating under assumption that I am from Russia rather than from a country that was subjugated by various russian governments for the last few centuries.
Providing Iraq with nuclear technology might have been a questionable act to do on russians part but you miss two major points. First, there is no proof that Iraq's nuclear program was any danger to US. Second, even assuming that Iraq's nuclear program could have become a danger to US - or more likely a deterrent for exactly the kind of invasion we've just performed, why does that make russians morons?
They would only be morons if they were concerned about US interests of if that program threatened their interests. Neither of those is true.
US and Russia and USSR before that has been competing through arming scum of the earth against each other's interests.
Were americans morons because they created and armed Taliban? Becasue they toppled socialist regime in Iran in 1953 and caused ayatollahs to come to power? Because they brought Ba'ath to power in 1963, armed that regime and when it had internal troubles, supplied Hussein with the names of people to liquidate? When they supported and praised Hitler and Mussolini through the 1930s?
One must be very arroigand or have god-like compex to assume that any action against his country interests by other countries is moronic. Hostile, maybe. Incompetent, usually. Hardly moronic.
miko
