there4eyeM
unlicensed metaphysician
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With a "direct line to God", you are doing all of us a disservice wasting you time here. Serious work needs to be done with what is going on in the world. Get busy!There was no coup in 1959...there was in 1958...and that is when Qasim came to power...he was killed in 1963. Saddam was a member of the opposition, but the CIA had no direct involvment in the 1963 coup....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan_Revolution#cite_note-FOOTNOTECitino2017218-219,_222-11View attachment 4875591) Despite Difficult Talks, U.S. and Iraq Had Expected Some American Troops to Stay (Published 2011)
Despite Difficult Talks, U.S. and Iraq Had Expected Some American Troops to Stay
2) i have...I think you are confusing Iraq and Iran. Saddam didn't come to power until the late 70s
3) I am just repeating what Obama said
4) Just repeating what Obama said
Saddam came to power in 1959 with the coup that overthrew Qasim. He was the power behind the throne with the dictator that preceded him, and he was the CIA's guy.
6) True, but he is not the leader of my Govt. My faith and Govt are two different things
How can they be? Either you think the Pope has a line to talking to God or you don't. If God and the Pope said the war was wrong, that should be your position as well.
"While there have been persistent rumors that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) orchestrated the coup, declassified documents and the testimony of former CIA officers indicate there was no direct American involvement, although the U.S. had been notified of two aborted Ba'athist coup plots in July and December 1962 and its post-coup actions suggested that "at best it condoned and at worst it contributed to the violence that followed."[10][11][12] Despite evidence that the CIA had been closely tracking the Ba'ath Party's coup planning since "at least 1961," a CIA official working with Archie Roosevelt Jr. to instigate a military coup against Qasim, and who later became the head of the CIA's operations in Iraq and Syria, has "denied any involvement in the Ba'ath Party's actions," stating instead that the CIA's efforts against Qasim were still in the planning stages at the time."
I have a direct line to God too. The Pope is the head of the Church, who's authority comes directly from God. God certainly wants peace, I have no doubt about that. But God is so great he gave his children free-will. If you have questions about the Catholic faith, and war...talk with Xiden...he's alledgely a Catholic and has voted for and supported far more wars then anyone I know on Earth today