How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 10 11:36:09 PDT 2002


R wrote:


>At 11:02 AM 9/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>Gar Lipow wrote:
>>
>>> OK not a main argument against invastion - but a good reply to
>>>one argument.
>>>
>>>The claim is that Iraq was uniquely evil because of
>>>
>>>1) Actually having used WMD
>>>
>>>2) Because he used them against his own people.
>>>
>>>
>>>That we sold them to him at the time he was doing this is a good
>>>reply to these - since apparently we did not think these
>>>particular things made him uniquely evil at the time. And it is a
>>>special point that Cheney was one of the ones who sold stuff to
>>>him.
>>
>>So what? That's history, as 41 used to say to dismiss something as
>>irrelevant. Or, that was then, this was now. Saddam (or my role
>>model, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar) was an important ally in our struggle
>>against Iran (or the USSR). But they've since gone on to terrible
>>things, and we must stop them.
>>
>>Doug
>
>OK, doug, you stop them.

Fucking hell, I don't think "we" should stop them. I'm merely impersonating someone who might for argument's sake.

Doug



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