frigidweirdo
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- Mar 7, 2014
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Not at all. You're just pretending you know what I think about American's enemies. You don't. So stop pretending you do.
I saw what you just posted.
Thus my judgement.
The Iran/Iraq War:
We sold very little to either side.
Iran was our enemy, but Saddam was an ally of the Soviets.
Iraq got the VAST MAJORITY of their stuff from the Soviet Union.
They got the vast majority of the little bit they didn't get from them, from France and Germany.
At some point, when the Iranians were looking like they might actually win, we sold them a little bit of crap to try to avoid that.
The small amount of crap we "sold" to the Iranians was a ransom attempt for innocent hostages.
Your posting that as evidence of our sins shows that you are taking the negative spin for US, and the positive spin for our enemies.
How much the US sold is neither here nor there. The US supported both sides. You have to understand the impact on the people in the region on such things.
How much and why the US sold is completely relevant to any reasonable analysis of the issue.
Which is WHY you don't want to consider it.
You, as I already pointed out, are accepting the most negative interpretation of events re: America, and the most positive for our enemies.
You are doing this, not to reach a Truth, but to rationalize your pre arrived at conclusion that America is the Bad Guy.
It's not relevant. The US supported Saddam. Everyone knows this. How much, no one cares. You can show US interference in Iraq to people and they see it, because it's true, and then they see interference all over the place.
You've even accepted there was interference, which was the point. You want to get down into details of this one case, but there are hundreds of cases of US interference in the Middle East, and you can see why Muslims in the ME are angry at the US.
Or are you going to pretend they're not?
How and why are obviously relevant if someone wants to find the truth.
How and why are NOT relevant is someone is instead searching for excuses and rationalizations for the hate they are already feeling.
Like you and the Muslims when it comes to America.
Like me and the Muslims when it comes to America huh? Are you trying to paint me as something that I'm not?