This sort of thing isn’t going to help us one little bit…
And I’m sure this helps even less…
Found via Boing Boing.
U.S. soldiers winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqis.
Posted by Les on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 12:05 AM. Read 929 times. Tags: politics, war
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Comments:
Bahamat 
Posted on 02/08/2007 at 02:33 PM
Posted on 02/08/2007 at 02:33 PM 
The US supported both sides of the Iraq-Iran war years ago, maybe to take pressure off itself by weakening two rivals, maybe to drive arms trade, get better oil deals or somehow gain in some way from the chaos, even if only to see if their weapons worked or to reduce the number of soldiers they had to pay wages +pension to by killin’ em. Either way they were supporting brutal dictators for their own benefit.
In the recent iraq war, I agree, saddam was in the way, and beyond his control his premiership was to end one way or another because of an american decision
The US has done Iran a big favour by removing a major rival and being too over-stretched to do much about it, even if they were to get further public support.
It was never about ‘democracy’. The US has a track record of helping overthrow democracies which don’t lean State-ways, supporting the brutal dictator, turning a blind eye to the massacres, and only trying to get rid of them when they are an obstruction.