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Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080124/ts_nm/iraq_saddam_interrogator_dc_1. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
From his grave? How C O N V E N I E N T... ;) It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . . |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
From his grave? How C O N V E N I E N T... ;) Did you not click the link and read the article? Note "admitted" is past tense. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
Note "admitted" is past tense. I can only imagine the libel that will miraculously crop up after I'm dead and gone... ;) It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . . |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Note "admitted" is past tense. I get the feeling you did not read the article. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Note "admitted" is past tense. No need for imagination when you've already read it. me@rescam.org |
Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
No need for imagination when you've already read it. I know, the anti-ant-libel seems to be a monthly occurrence... ;) About the article... I see an agenda: Saddam wanted to maintain the image of a strong Iraq to deter Iran, its historic enemy, from hostile action. It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . . |
Gavin Shaw Send message Joined: 8 Aug 00 Posts: 1116 Credit: 1,304,337 RAC: 0 |
No need for imagination when you've already read it. Every group/country/government/military/news etc has an agenda. Every religion has an agenda. Even you have an agenda. (And even me). So nothing to be surprised about... Never surrender and never give up. In the darkest hour there is always hope. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
About the article... I see an agenda: What Jeffrey is saying is that Iran and Iraq have never been enemies; that Iran was never hostile towards Iraq; and Saddam should not have been worrying so much that someday Iran would become hostile towards Iraq, since they'd always been neighborly buddies beforehand. ;-) Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
The only truth in that article is his surprise at being attacked BY HIS FRIENDS in the White House. |
Tom Haley Send message Joined: 3 Jul 99 Posts: 80 Credit: 1,132,917 RAC: 0 |
Hmmm - let's see, Saddam starts a war with Iran and uses nerve gas on them, can't win that one so he jumps on Kuwait, allies have to kick him out but before they withdraw they set as many oil wells on fire as he can (which at the time some folks speculated it would cause the most enviromental damage in history), while he is at it he throws a few missles at israel to see if he can get the whole region engulfed in a war, to no avail. so he has a few thousand of his own villagers killed off because they defied him. Now after he get's his butt kicked and his military destroyed, he occasionally shoots a few missles at our planes, subverts the oil for food program so he can stuff a few tens of millions into swiss bank accounts and start rebuilding his military, lets wounded terrorists come get patched up in baghdad, allows them to build a few training camps while he is at it, meanwhile his spy service is negociating with Osama for what no one ever found out. and to top it off has a hit put out on an ex american president. Meanwhile every spy agency in the world says he is trying to get nukes, (russian, french, british for example) and escaping scientists are swearing the nerve gas factories are up and running. and so what do the libs say "BUSH LIED so we could steal his oil" but just so happens, no oil. Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. - Mark Twain |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
"No friend of mine! Nope, never met the man" Had Rumsfeld gone rogue at the time? Was he acting on his own? |
Tom Haley Send message Joined: 3 Jul 99 Posts: 80 Credit: 1,132,917 RAC: 0 |
Secretary Albright planning demise of Israel obviously, Or it might be interpreted as another secretary meeting someone because you have to. Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. - Mark Twain |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Secretary Albright planning demise of Israel obviously, Name a time period since the late 1940s that the United States was not closely allied with Israel. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
Secretary Albright planning demise of Israel obviously, You can interpret it any way you want, but Rumsfeld was there doing "business as usual" In spite of the Reagan administration's publically stated policy of neutrality in the Iran/Iraq war, arms sales were brisk to both sides. |
JLDun Send message Joined: 21 Apr 06 Posts: 573 Credit: 196,101 RAC: 0 |
In spite of the Reagan administration's publically stated policy of neutrality in the Iran/Iraq war, arms sales were brisk to both sides. Definition of neutrality: Treating all sides equally by- 1. Not dealing/interacting with any participant. 2. Dealing with all participants the same way, either by- 2a. Acting as if a war wasn't happening (Pre-war behavior; The Switzerland Route). 2b. Supplying both sides equally for war.
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Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
In spite of the Reagan administration's publically stated policy of neutrality in the Iran/Iraq war, arms sales were brisk to both sides. Point made and taken. |
JLDun Send message Joined: 21 Apr 06 Posts: 573 Credit: 196,101 RAC: 0 |
...while you seem to be implying point 1. Thanks. ;-) As "an aside"... Saddam Miscalculated? I had heard of that report before, and it doesn't make too much sense to me. We attack Iraq once (on behalf of Kuwait, of course) when he- Saddam- isn't 'pushing' any WMDs, and he thinks we (or someone else out of his immediate range) wouldn't do anything when he appears to have a cache? |
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