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An Option for Iraq-- War Reparations?
Topic Started: May 8 2006, 09:43 AM (535 Views)
ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
AlbertaCrude
May 9 2006, 09:57 AM
ivorythumper
May 9 2006, 08:26 AM
What is now happening in Iraq is a continuation of the events started by Saddam when he invaded Kuwait...

I do not dispute this. However, the US, French and British at the time knew perfectly well that Hussein was a warlord. As well Hussein used all diplomatic channels to the first Bush Administration, Whitehall and Paris that he would use military force to collect on Kuwaiti financial promises made to Iraq during the Iran Iraq War. No country took Hussein's claims against seriously. In fact Hussein was given the impression from meetings with UNSC envoys that Kuwait was there for his taking. Certainly, given that Kuwait was made British protectorate in 1899 for the specific benefit of D'arcy's Anglo-Persian Oil Company it was in later set aside from the Iraqi Mandate to enable the British to control the production and refining of all oil in the Persian Gulf. Arguably, Hussein was not entirely incorrect in maintaining that Kuwait was indeed a part of greater Iraq as per the terms of the 1919 Paris Treaty and Iraq's independence of 1932.

Yes, I understand that Saddam was collecting on a debt -- and a blood debt at that -- to be paid in oil for defending the south against Iranian aggression. I certainly had a lot of sympathy for Iraq's position in 1990, but more for the people of Iraq than the government, as I still do.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Rick Zimmer
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Kincaid
May 9 2006, 07:58 AM
Rick Zimmer
May 9 2006, 07:48 AM
I do think that invading a country and thinking we can rebuild it the way we want it for our own geopolitical desires is.

Is what?

Is shirking our responsibility as the only super power.
[size=4]Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul -- Benedict XVI[/size]
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AlbertaCrude
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And just what is the responsibility the mega power in the age of pax americana?
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
AlbertaCrude
May 9 2006, 11:08 AM
And just what is the responsibility the mega power in the age of pax americana?

What it has always been.

Our interests, and our responsibilities, are inextricably linked.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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AlbertaCrude
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Thanks, but I am more curious to read how RZ might respond.
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Kincaid
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HOLY CARP!!!
Moi aussi.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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