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The Gulf wars were forced by the USA, there were diplomatic options available, that were rejected out of hand and suppressed in the media. But yes highly irresp
by Synaesthesia 5y ago
The Gulf wars were forced by the USA, there were diplomatic options available, that were rejected out of hand and suppressed in the media. But yes highly irresponsible stuff, trying to give Saddam nuclear weapons, taking him off the terror list ...
We're pretty much in the nuclear nightmare scenario right now, with everybody's hands poised over the trigger.
- leephillips 5y agoAnd yet Jimmy Carter is still considered a moral paragon. One million dead.
- Synaesthesia 5y agoThe handing over of nuclear tech to Iraq happened under Reagan, yeah Carter did some pretty horrible things in his foreign policy.
- leephillips 5y agoI had in mind the Iran-Iraq war, which is estimated to have cost a million lives, and for which Carter gave his go-ahead. EDIT: Somehow I didn’t know about Reagan’s providing nuclear technology to Saddam. I’m going to have to read up.