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Originally Posted by Skybird
Yadda-yadda-yadda, all nice, all irrelevant to the topic.
You accepted to be confronted by Iraqi SAMS when you willed to monitor and enforce the no-fly zones (which did not prevent their helicopters to massacre the Shia after they were betrayed by the US), and when you willed to enforce the UN mandate. You had to expect that, and the UN mandate hardly gave you green light for an allout war to remove the regime that you just had saved from falling in 1991 - intentionally.
* You wanted that country as a strategic platform,
* and you wanted your hand at the Iraqi oil pipelines to be able to control who gets what, and US companies and namely Cheney's Halliburton taking the lion's share of the profits.
These were the reasons why this war was planned and wanted. It was not a war of necessity, it was a war of choice and desire. Your shiny propaganda sounds nice and kind in the ear, but has not much to do with the reality.
but some weeks ago you tried to tell me that the developement costs of a fighter program do not proportionally contribute to the overall value of the individual unit in service, so what else could I expect than absurdities.  |
You're not very bright are you? What part of ceasefire under terms do you not understand number one?
And yes, I do not doubt we wanted the country, Iraqies willing, as a strategic platform.
So what you are incapable of fathoming is that the US really isn't looking out for you, they are looking out for me. You are an ally and all, but US interests come first. Germany is somewhere down the spiral. Get used to it.
-S
PS. It is totally relevant to the topic - you brought it up. Not me! :p
