Re: The USA is Bombing Iraq Again. You can cut and paste from the sentences and paragraphs I made and turn it into some other meaning. Seems that's what you did. I don't know of any other highly militarized nation where we installed a brutal dictator and propped him up for decades. I do know of nations we interfered with in the past, and I suggested economic reparations, not war. I'm consistently consistent, regardless of your choice of edits.
It's vastly different, indeed. I did not support occupying Iraq. The guy you voted for did. You speak from both sides of your mouth.
Re: The USA is Bombing Iraq Again. I don't think I took those comments out of context. Feel free to explain how you didn't mean what you said, though. barfo
This is the post you deliberately butchered. Where did I say we should go to war anywhere else? We can hospital and school them to death in barfo land. We can provide reparations and do right by the people we wronged in the past.
Yes, I see, I misunderstood. You are saying that Iraq is unique in that it had a dictator. Everyplace else we've done bad things now has a dead dictator or a democracy, so we can right our wrongs by just throwing money at them. barfo
Pretty much. If there are bad guys still in power, I still don't think war and occupation is a way to go. For the 2nd or 3rd time now, what GHW Bush did with Noriega will do. Small military force went in and arrested him. They put him on trial and in jail. He was extradited to France and served time there. He was extradited back to Panama, and will die in prison there. It was over in a matter of days. That picture of Bush, mission accomplished was after ~3 weeks of combat against Saddam's army. His army was defeated, and he was deposed. The war was over. We should have brought the troops home after arresting Saddam and handing him over to the Haig or the Iraqis. How much clearer do I have to be? Or are you intent on twisting this into something else I did not write or imply or advocate.
No, no, it's very clear. Saddam is the one and only dictator that we needed to, or ever will need to, remove with an army. Everyplace else is Panama, where we just arrest the bad guy. And Iraq should have been like that, but wasn't, but that's totally ok. barfo
I didn't say much of that, but OK, barfo. All I can tell from this is that you have a reading comprehension problem.
I'm reminded of a corollary, a short story about the Spanish Civil War called "Blanco y Negro" (Black & White). Two people are having a conversation on a park bench, one person saying "Blanco", the other "Negro". Their discussion gets more heated, until they are screaming at each other "Blanco!" and "Negro!". Finally, a third person comes in and calmly says "Amarillo" (Yellow). The two protagonists look at each other, and then kill the guy that offered the compromise. The moral of the story is the only thing that the extremes agree upon is that the middle must be killed.
