It was a little bit about a discovered torture chamber.
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US-installed puppet-dictatorships-gone-bad.
hypothetical imaginary Baathist sympathizers
I bet there have been thousands of those rooms all over the globe over the last half century with CIA operatives sitting quietly outside the door, awaiting the results.
Over in column A you have a weasel who owes his political career to American foreign policy machinations and financial support. In column
B you have an undeclared war conducted outside the rules hammered out by the global community which have been in sway for sixty years . . .
(Amnesty) They used to be the darlings of the American war machine
I bet the young Arabs across the world now aspiring to grow up and murder American religious imperialists won't be swayed by this revelation in the least.
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It was just a little bit about a discovered torture chamber. It became a kind of geo-political diatribe.
You asked where I had been for the last 40 years. Well, I've been reading history rather than propaganda.
This following paragraph of yours makes good reading:
"I have heard speculations that the reason behind the appalling bungling which currently passes for US foreign policy is a result of still-classified intelligence which, when filtered through
a thoroughly unprepared administration, led to ineptitude
born of urgency combined with fear of disclosure. It remains to
be seen whether any such scenario could account for how badly
this whole affair has been handled. It is, however, the only
suggestion I have yet heard which still remains within the realm
of plausibility, other than simply "these guys are complete idiots".
To my thinking, I agree with the view that the moment the troops crossed the border, Bush had lost, it is just a matter now of waiting now to see how much and how badly, and how much can be salvaged by postwar bridge-mending and statesmanship (a concept so far apparently
utterly foreign to the current administration)."
I happen to think there is chance we've all won. Don't let your lack of appreciation for Bush to color your approach to everything.
Harry
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