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In reply to the discussion: "Always remember?" (GRAPHIC WARNING FOR THOSE WITH SENSITIVE DISPOSITION) [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Then go back to when the CIA had their chosen leader assassinated and installed their guy, Saddam Hussein, to be our puppet.
Go read some of the history of Iraq and the US. Saddam Hussein was OUR guy in Iraq. He was Ronald Reagan's favorite dictator. What he did to his own people he did with our backing, our supplies of weapons, our approval, our money.
But you don't need to go back to that history to see why there might be people who have a reason to hate us.
Just look at Uzbekistan TODAY and look at who we are propping up there.
Go to Latin and Central America. Our policies haven't changed.
Why are we supporting a dictator like Karamov of Uzbekistan right NOW? He makes Saddam look like an amateur when it comes to Dictators. But we love him. He lets us, as the Wikileaks cables revealed, keep bases in Uzbekistan, so what if he boils his own people in oil??
Karamov should take heed though of what happens to our favorite dictators when we have no more use for them. He could ask Saddam Hussein, if he was still alive. Or Noriega. We are not particularly loyal to the scumbags who sell out their own people to get our money and support to keep them in power.
Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983.
Saddam, favorite Dictator of the US, until he was of no more use to us. I believe Donald Rumsfeld brought Saddam some gold cuff links from President Ronald Reagan during that visit. Donald Rumsfeld forgot to tell the American people when he was selling the war with Iraq, about his and Reagan's special relationship with Saddam.
And so did the US MSM.
It was a shock when Americans found out about our prior, very close relationship with the man they were led to believe was just a third world dictator we, noble as we are, had suddenly discovered.
But we won't be able to pretend we did not know about our relationships today with some of the world's worst dictators, like the Bahraini Royal Family or Karamov of Uzbekistan, when our leaders suddenly decide they have no more use for them.