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Originally Posted by SOD
Surely you can justify all your statements with supporting evidence?
I'd especially like to see that which implies that Saddam was a good man.
I'm well aware of the history of the US and others supporting and arming Saddam, but in your narrow field of view you've obviously forgotten about the number of countries that did so.
As I'm good acquaitance and/or friends with some of the first troops to arrive to protect Saudi Arabia and later remove Saddams men from Kuwait I'm also aware of that situation including the mass destruction of Kuwait, and the fact the Iraq never paid repairs for such invasion, much less accounted for the large numbers of "missing" Kuwaitis.
From that point I've made myself familiar with the numbers of resolutions passed by the UN, and the large number of countries that voted in favor of same. Along with the inspection reports, the financial accounting of the no fly zone patrols, the build up to the invasion and the war itself.
So before you cast another childish poke my way, do me a favor and understand that despite all the evidence that it was justified and supported, I still didn't favor a war, nor do I wish to see any more people killed. A great deal of that position is based on the fact that I haven't spent my entire life sitting in an easy chair, but instead spent several years serving with reactionary forces in the military.
You might enjoy more thinking that you've accomplished something by pointing fingers and making unjustified assumptions about people, but in fact you're only putting on display how wrong your sterotypes are.
I'm actively engaged in several humanitarian organizations involved in both Iraq and Darfur, and have given financial support and volunteer time to both. How much time or money have you given to help the people of Iraq?
