How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them

[R]

At 02:36 PM 9/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>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

you're so persuasive, i can't tell when you're you and when you're not.

R