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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 12:29 PM Original message |
What made Poppy turn on Saddam, anyways? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. timing and opportunity. it wasn't as much that we liked Saddam in 80s, he was just useful |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. Maybe he was just ripe for the picking. |
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PCIntern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 12:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Remember April Glaspie? |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 05:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. "Sure! Go ahead! Invade Kuwait! We won't mind" |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
4. the neocon plans for Iraq began with the end of the cold war |
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noise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 01:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Did Hussein truly believe he would get away with it |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 02:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. he had "legitimate" disputes with Kuwait |
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newyawker99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 05:24 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Hi noise!! |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-11-06 09:01 PM Response to Reply #5 |
23. Hi noise! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
7. Poppy wanted to scare the Saudis into letting us have bases in Saudi Arabia. |
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Kellyiswise (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 03:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. So, 9/11 can be laid at poppy's feet? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 03:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. In a way, yes. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 04:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. And the neoshouldbeconvicts. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. Fucking poll numbers..that's |
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TangoCharlie (46 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
12. Maybe it's not smart to be Poppy's friend |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
13. Saddam was very much like Noriega. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
15. Communism had the bad taste to begin to collapse around that time. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 05:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I think that's a huge part of it, quite frankly. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 06:23 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. You certainly have been attuned to all this for a long time. |
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BikeWriter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
18. Saddam was stupid for falling for April Glaspie's lies. I look at it... |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
19. Saddam nationalized oil reserves. |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
20. It all goes back to oil. |
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Greeby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-10-06 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
21. Because the Democratic Congress of 1990 was making big military cuts |
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