A big part of the Marshall Plan was simply feeding a starving population. I have German friends who remembered their childhood as constantly being hungry. When the US started supplying food, they were very grateful.
Disinformation propagated by Saddam himself. He had come off a war with Iran and wanted to convince them - and the US - that he had WMDs. He moved facilities around and acted for all the world like he had them.
He was a better administrator than he was General, imo.
Didn't he use chemical weapons against Iran? Seems like I read that somewhere... but it's possible that I dreamed that.
Didn't he use chemical weapons against Iran? Seems like I read that somewhere... but it's possible that I dreamed that.
Where do we file the red flag on him, it's pretty worrisome.
Clarity is fulfilling. I’m wondering what age I’ll just stop bothering to form new opinions.
I'm still not convinced that he didn't have some chemical and maybe biological weapons that he sneaked into Syria. I know I read articles (if you could believe any of them is another matter) that said he was doing that. I don't think they believe he had nuclear weapons but was working on trying to get one. Even Iran doesn't have one yet, so they say, and they've been working for years on getting them. I think he wanted all the countries around him to think he had them so he could intimidate them. Clinton thought he had WMDs and so did a lot in congress and in the end I agreed more with Clinton's policies toward Iraq than I did with Bush's policies. I think it was you that said that some of those people hate each other so there's never gonna be peace in that area.
I’ve been unable to discern his purpose for posting. Unless he truly is as stupid as his posting style, he knows that no one on either side or the middle thinks he’s a serious poster. He rarely gets a reaction or a serious reply as a result.
This was the most glaring bit. It's all well and good to say Saddam might have had chemical weapons and then label those as WMD (which, I'm guessing, quite a few nations have). But to then also argue he was hellbent on, and close to, putting together a nuclear weapons program and lumping that together with the chemical weapons as WMD was wrong.
They knew they had to play the nuke card to get the public buy in they needed.
Yeah, I can remember yelling at the TV screen any time that came up at the time and my wife getting mad at me.
Shit, you oughta see my wife if Joy Reid comes on the screen. She'll glare at me and may physically attack me to get the remote to change teh channel such is her hatred. I, of course, hide the remote.
His own Generals thought they had them and they’d be delivered for their use during our invasion.
Haha. Don't worry. I can't stand Joy Reid, but the satisfaction I get out of the littlest things in life is immeasurable.
Iraq and Ukraine are two totally different things. One was a misjudged foray into a sectarian Balkanized country based off shoddy intelligence and post 9/11 paranoia.
