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I thought Bush lied about Iraq having WMD????

hypocritexposer

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Washington—Sunni extremists in Iraq have occupied what was once Saddam Hussein's premier chemical-weapons production facility, a complex that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, State Department and other U.S. government officials said.

U.S. officials don't believe the Sunni militants will be able to create a functional chemical weapon from the material. The weapons stockpiled at the Al Muthanna complex are old, contaminated and hard to move, officials said.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/sunni-extremists-in-iraq-occupy-saddams-chemical-weapons-facility-1403190600
 

djinwa

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No, he didn't lie. Of course Saddam had WMDs. As the CIA said, "We have the receipts."

Yep, we were supplying him with materials to make WMDs to use against Iran. The same Iran we destabilized after we ousted an elected leader and installed a dictator in 1953, do a search on Operation Ajax.

After our dictator brutalized his people for a few decades, Iranians revolted and installed religious fanatics in 1979 (and took hostages in our embassy), after which Saddam went to war against them, with our support.

As with most government action, create a problem, then provide a solution, and KEEP SPENDING MONEY!!!!!
 

Traveler

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All of the Democraps who claimed they knew there were WMDs, and then they all squawked "Bush Lied" are a bunch of treasonous SOBs. May they have a special place in the afterlife, shared with detonated Islamic Terrorists.
 

Whitewing

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Traveler said:
All of the Democraps who claimed they knew there were WMDs, and then they all squawked "Bush Lied" are a bunch of treasonous SOBs. May they have a special place in the afterlife, shared with detonated Islamic Terrorists.

I'm betting OT will be rewarded with 72 virgins though I'm not sure what he'd do with them. With that belly of his, I suspect it's been quite a few years since he's even seen his own johnson, much less used it.
 

Mike

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Traveler said:
All of the Democraps who claimed they knew there were WMDs, and then they all squawked "Bush Lied" are a bunch of treasonous SOBs. May they have a special place in the afterlife, shared with detonated Islamic Terrorists.

This.
 

Brad S

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Remember, the cease fire stipulated weapons inspectors. Hussein violated the treaty when he kicked out out inspectors "because the inspectors were driving too fast?" No, likely because they were an inconvenience to his superpower aspirations.

Had W wished to tolerate Hussein, the US could have allowed Hussein to be the regional hegemon, sold him arms, and though wholly immoral, be in a much better situation .

This Middle East quandary is like those ethics questions where there is no right answer, unless we go back to post ww2 boundaries. Most of those actors are dead (and from the UK) so we have to play the crappy hand dealt by bad luck and bad planning and bad faith.

It's a damn good thing the Bakken play is mostly on private land, if it were in Nevada and Utah, oil would be $200/barrel.
 
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Brad S said:
It's a damn good thing the Bakken play is mostly on private land, if it were in Nevada and Utah, oil would be $200/barrel.


Dick Cheney has been sharing your concerns about the oil business and fretting about the wells... :wink:

June 17, 2014

Dick Cheney: “My Thoughts and Prayers Are with the Iraqi Oil Wells”

Posted by Andy Borowitz


JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING (The Borowitz Report)—Former Vice-President Dick Cheney broke his silence about the crisis in Iraq on Tuesday, telling reporters, “My thoughts and prayers are with the Iraqi oil wells.”

Speaking from his Wyoming ranch, Cheney said that he had planned to remain quiet about the current state of affairs in Iraq, but “thinking about those oil wells has kept me up at night.”


“If Dick Cheney won’t speak for the Iraqi oil wells, who will?” he said.

Cheney indicated that, as of now, there was no fighting near Iraq’s oil wells, but warned, “If the violence spreads, those wells could be in jeopardy. And it’s up to the international community to insure that that worst-case scenario doesn’t happen.”

The former Vice-President said that he expected to “catch hell” for inserting himself into the debate about Iraq, but was resolute in his decision to do so. “If I prevent one drop of precious oil from being spilled, it will have been worth it,” he said.
 

TexasBred

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djinwa said:
No, he didn't lie. Of course Saddam had WMDs. As the CIA said, "We have the receipts."

Yep, we were supplying him with materials to make WMDs to use against Iran. The same Iran we destabilized after we ousted an elected leader and installed a dictator in 1953, do a search on Operation Ajax.

After our dictator brutalized his people for a few decades, Iranians revolted and installed religious fanatics in 1979 (and took hostages in our embassy), after which Saddam went to war against them, with our support.

As with most government action, create a problem, then provide a solution, and KEEP SPENDING MONEY!!!!!

Meet the Shah

From 1941 until 1979, Iran was ruled by a constitutional monarchy under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran's Shah (king).

Although Iran, also called Persia, was the world's oldest empire, dating back 2,500 years, by 1900 it was floundering. Bandits dominated the land; literacy was one percent; and women, under archaic Islamic dictates, had no rights.

The Shah changed all this. Primarily by using oil-generated wealth, he modernized the nation. He built rural roads, postal services, libraries, and electrical installations. He constructed dams to irrigate Iran's arid land, making the country 90-percent self-sufficient in food production. He established colleges and universities, and at his own expense, set up an educational foundation to train students for Iran's future.

To encourage independent cultivation, the Shah donated 500,000 Crown acres to 25,000 farmers. In 1978, his last full year in power, the average Iranian earned $2,540, compared to $160 25 years earlier. Iran had full employment, requiring foreign workers. The national currency was stable for 15 years, inspiring French economist André Piettre to call Iran a country of "growth without inflation." Although Iran was the world's second largest oil exporter, the Shah planned construction of 18 nuclear power plants. He built an Olympic sports complex and applied to host the 1988 Olympics (an honor eventually assigned Seoul), an achievement unthinkable for other Middle East nations.

Long regarded as a U.S. ally, the Shah was pro-Western and anti-communist, and he was aware that he posed the main barrier to Soviet ambitions in the Middle East. As distinguished foreign-affairs analyst Hilaire du Berrier noted: "He determined to make Iran … capable of blocking a Russian advance until the West should realize to what extent her own interests were threatened and come to his aid.... It necessitated an army of 250,000 men." The Shah's air force ranked among the world's five best. A voice for stability within the Middle East itself, he favored peace with Israel and supplied the beleaguered state with oil.

On the home front, the Shah protected minorities and permitted non-Muslims to practice their faiths. "All faith," he wrote, "imposes respect upon the beholder." The Shah also brought Iran into the 20th century by granting women equal rights. This was not to accommodate feminism, but to end archaic brutalization.

AND THEN.....THE U.S. AND BRITAIN STEPPED IN !!!!!!!!
 

Brad S

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The thing that puzzles me is all the critics of the shaws brutality are silent about much greater brutality all across the M E, especially perpetrated against Isreal.

Oh well, at least everyone can agree W is a stand up guy to refuse to continue the practice of maintaining puppet dictators.

What am I missing, quoting Borowitz? Really, why not Sean penn or the magic 8 ball?
 
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