Re: OT - Coulter

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...

> >> Sure.  And Don Rumsfeld -- while working for your hero Ronald 
> >> Reagan -- oversaw the sale of toxic chemicals to Saddam 
> >> Hussein with which Hussein then gassed Kurds and other 
> >> opponents (real or imagined) of his regime.  
> >> 
> >> Here are your cites.
> >
> >Let's examine an example.
> >
> >> http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.regime.change/
> >
> >Now what - *exactly* - do you find in any way objectionable - not to 
> >mention illegal - about any of the American actions presented in this 
> >story?
> 
> 
> That particular article (one of six cited) isn't specific 
> about the aid given to Iraq, or what Saddam did with 
> that aid.  In fact, the article makes Saddam out to be 
> a perfectly moderate, reasonable head of state.
> 
> So, what changed in twenty years?  Nothing.  When 
> it was convenient for us to do so, we played nice with 
> Saddam, called him our friend, sold him some 
> plague and poison gas to go use against the 
> Ayatollah.  Even though we knew better.
> 
> The CBS article gets much more specific about what 
> was provided:  "chemicals and germs, even anthrax 
> and bubonic plague".  That was just for starters, of 
> course.
> 
> Saddam, like the Taliban -- is a monster of our own 
> making.  We've got a long history of supporting 
> brutal dictators as long as it suits our perceived 
> self-interest at the moment.
> 
> And you wonder why so many people around the 
> world despise us?  Are you that dense?

So I guess your answer is ... you find *nothing* objectionable about the 
US actions you "cited?"

Why the fuck cite it, then?  

Of course, the answer is obvious; you cited a couple of mainstream news 
sources - which do not support your position - in order to give cover to 
the lefty-looney websites - which do support your position - you also 
mention.  

Golly.  I wonder if anyone is fooled.

-- 
Giftzwerg
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"The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon 
the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it 
opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped 
the other genocide, Josef Stalin.  It has marched for Mao, 
Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has 
slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated 
against everything and everyone American for a century. 
Broadly speaking, it hates [America] first, [Britain] second."
                                  - Frederick Forsyth