This place sure goes in "spurts"

[Odd]

David Sanders wrote:
> 2009/7/20 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>> Iraq was something like an oasis of stability and non-religious safety
>> in the middle east - but he offended Bush Sr. The Gulf War 1 didn't
>> kill him off, and so even though the USA's CIA set him up in the first
>> place, Saddam had to go. I find it tragic.
>>
> I was actually referring to the constant bombings and economic
> sanctions imposed by the UK and US between the two Gulf wars. This
> lead to a 5% reduction in population numbers, and I would imagine the
> number is far higher now.
> 
> Saddam was, as with most tinpot dictators, an evil abhorrent man, but
> his faults lie with the fact the US prised him into power anyway.
> 
> If anyone's foreign policy can be compared with Hitler's, it's GWBs.

To be fair, he only invaded one country that didn't deserve it.
The Soviets foreign policy is a far more comparable to
Hitler's.

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Odd