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The Genealogist

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7. The world is full of tyrants...

Reply to quinnox (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 02:38 PM

Dec 2011

Why not go after all of them? Oh, right, not all of them are sitting on nice large supplies of oil. And some of the tyrants sitting on oil are our "allies." So, yeah, so much for that justification of Iraq with the "Saddam was a tyrant" rhetoric. It should be "Saddam was a tyrant with vast quantities of oil, off which American capitalists wanted to profit."

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Neo-cons first line of defense - "Saddam was a tyrant" they all do it [View all] quinnox Dec 2011 OP

Mugabe is a tyrant. tabatha Dec 2011 #1

It is like they all belong to the same cult Angry Dragon Dec 2011 #2

They said the same thing about Lincoln. EFerrari Dec 2011 #3

I usually start off by say that Saddam was a tyrant and then add was it worth it. donco Dec 2011 #4

Or to paraphrase the Onion booley Dec 2011 #5

Tell 'em.....Our military found and disposed of a hidden person.... Tikki Dec 2011 #6

The world is full of tyrants... The Genealogist Dec 2011 #7

yeah, well pinochet was a tyrant newspeak Dec 2011 #9

My response to that BS is RC Dec 2011 #8