Saddam's Letter

[miko2d]

Originally posted by Jochen:
It is not a Clintons fault that Saddam is still in power.
 It is because of impotence of Bush sr. who ultimately he gave the orders to stop advance during the war because he did not have the guts to go further. He was sure that Saddam's regime would collapse but of course, he was wrong.

I guess it is too mentally taxing for you to read the posts in the thread before saying some ignorant thing. At least there is no indication in you message that you read the points and not agreeing with them for some reason.

 So let me review in simple words the major points discussed here so you can at least argue them before saying another stupid thing.

 1. US have no reason to wish collapse of Saddam's regime.
 2. Saddam's regime is crucial to the stability of the region, which is in turn important to our interests and crucial to our allies.

 Bush Sr was smart enough to realise that and brave enough to stop the seemingly victorious operation against population wishes. He in fact prevented another Afghanistan for us.
 We did win completely in Afghanistan and overthrew the previous regime and replaced it with one of our creation. Are you happy with it?

 miko

[ 11-01-2001: Message edited by: miko2d ]

[Boroda]

Miko, one correction: USSR helped Iraq in Iran-Iraq war. Most of their aviation and armoured equipment was Soviet.

Shit, they still owe around 9 billion dollars to us! That's one of the reasons that Russia is against UN sanctions - Iraq simply can't pay it's debts because of them.

USSR had the whole Turkestan military district against Iran, that was the most probable enemy in the south.

[StSanta]

Hangtime wrote:

The White House has a new parrot every 4 to eight years. He's an interloper.. a Joe who makes speaches; pontifcates, fornicates, defacates and leaves. Small beans.

Man, that's the most accurate, concise and to the point analysis of the role of a president I've seen in a loooong time.

Hangtime for President! He defacates better than most! And, judging by the status of the sheep, he's quite a fornicator too!

[Eagler]

Hangtime wrote:
The White House has a new parrot every 4 to eight years.

Should read:
Hangtime wrote:
The White House has a new bird every 4 to eight years.

Sometimes the bird is an Eagle other times an Ostrich ...

Easier for an Ostrich to follow an Eagle into office than the other way around...