[lbo-talk] Pollitt on Dean

[Willy Greenfields]

> You mean rewind the tape to when around 500,000
> Iraqis were getting killed
> in a brutal (and largely ineffectual) war of
> conquest against Iran (of
> course, we all know the US was responsible for every
> speck of bloodshed
> in that conflict... because it sold weapons to both
> sides)? 

If you care to, we can. I'd say, though, that the U.S.
is responsible not b/c of its arms dealing, but b/c it
goaded on and supported the vile Hussein. The parallel
to Cambodia where a 'defeated' US sided with the
post-1979 KR suggests intself here.

Wherever you care to begin your appraisal of US
dealings in the region, if that appraisal is at all
honest, you'll find that those dealings are seldom
honorable and benefit the people of the region only accidentally.

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