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Anonymous
If Saddam had never invaded Kuwait, we wouldn't be having this discussion. He used to be an ally of the U.S. since he was opposed to Iran, but he eventually decided to not be a team player and put his own interests ahead of the interests of the U.S. Can't let that happen, can we?
I do find it funny that no one gave a shit about Saddam's crimes back in the 80's when he was actually doing most of his killing.
Augusto Pinochet destroys Chile's democracy and murders 3000 of his own countrymen, yet he gets to die and old, old man and is hailed as a saint by the right wing. Supramayat Niyazov, who also recently died of natural causes, heads a brutal police state and has a massive personality cult, yet no one says a thing. The Indonesian government kills over a million of its own people and then illegally annexes East Timor, eventually killing nearly a third of the Timorese people. No one in charge of this country gave a shit. The people of Iran used to have a working democracy, but because of oil interests the U.S. decides to kick the then-current Iranian government out and installs the Shah, whose tyrannical rule paves the way for the 1979 Iranian revolution that is the cause of many of our current troubles. Red China remains a favorite trading partner of the U.S. and their president hangs out with Bush, despite the fact that the Chinese people are forced to live under Communist brutality.
The U.S. government has never cared about things like human rights, democracy, or simple decency. The only time they pretend to care about any of those things is when it's favorable to U.S. economic and foriegn policy interests. Countless millions may suffer and die, but that's no big whoop so long as the killing is being done to advance corporate interests, "anti-Communism" (Soviet/Cuban only; Chinese Commies are fine, apparently), or what have you.
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