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Goodness gracious. Your rhetoric is reminiscent of 2003 when the US portrayed Saddam and Iraq as being beyond reason, and that the West HAD to attack lest West

Goodness gracious. Your rhetoric is reminiscent of 2003 when the US portrayed Saddam and Iraq as being beyond reason, and that the West HAD to attack lest Western civilization be toppled. >..nukes against the US if the Three Gorges Dam is attacked. I'm not sure this statement paints the CCP as the villain you imagine it does. No country with options is going to stand by while the largest hydropower dam in the world is attacked, and possibly millions of their citizens are killed due to flooding and famine.

redis_mlc 5y ago
Hussein was beyond reason, and had to be removed. You can quibble about when or why, but he attacked client states of the US. (KSA paid the US to defend them.) In fact, he did use "weapons of mass destruction" - poison gas on Kurds, which is well-documented. So get your story straight. The back story behind why Hussein thought he could rampage through the Middle East while ignoring the US is: 1) He thought that since the US "lost" in Vietnam, that he could duplicate that. That's why perception of strength is so important, even when you're a nuclear power. 2) France and Germany told him that the US wouldn't invade, to advance their trade status with him. (soothsayers) 3) A contributing factor was that there was no way to communicate to him the seriousness of US resolve - the US sent a last-minute envoy, but the Iraqi leadership would only accept formal diplomacy.