[Dean's World] Dean: America's Buddy Saddam: Bullsh*t

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Posted by Dean:
America's Buddy Saddam: Bullsh*t
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1184200607.shtml


   There is a reason hard-working volunteers set up [1]this wiki. The
   only thing frustrating me now is that not enough people have signed up
   to help dispel the bullcrap that keeps being passed around about
   Saddam, Iraq, and America.

   Cases in point:

   1) Saddam was never "on America's payroll." 2) America did not supply
   Saddam with any significant amount of chemical weapons. 3) Saddam
   exploited a loophole in CDC/academic policy to obtain small amounts of
   anthrax and a few other bio-poisons that he later used in ways never
   imagined by those who did it. 4) Donald Rumsfeld once shaking the
   bastard's hands did not make him "our guy." 5) Saddam's military
   equipment was primarily Soviet, and secondarily French. What little he
   got from us (very little) was tertiary at best)

   You can document all of this clearly.

   After five years of repeating these facts, I've completely lost
   patience with doing it yet again for friends like Ali. Would some kind
   soul please, please, PLEASE [2]sign up for this wiki and provide the
   documentation so I don't have to do it yet again???

   Because I have a life, and problems of my own, and I just can't make
   myself do it all yet again. For the umpteenth time.

   You've swallowed a bunch of Americaphobic garbage, Ali. Saddam was not
   our guy. We did not arm him. He was not our tool or our puppet. And if
   you show me one more time (as so many have) Donald Rumsfeld shaking
   Saddamn's hand on one occasion, I'll give you 50 of Harry Truman and
   Franklin Roosevelt shaking Stalin's hand.

   I'm tired of having to answer the Americaphobes. I really am. My
   patience for it is at an end.

   Is the world simply about one set of bad guys against another? Or is
   it a set of imperfect guys against much worse guys? This is probably
   the ultimate question. But you have to answer it for yourself.

References

   1. http://www.truthaboutiraq.org/
   2. http://www.truthaboutiraq.org/