Venezuela's Chavez welcomes ally Ahmadinejad

[ronnie624]

73. You rationalized U.S. intervention in the Middle East

with Iran's persecution of gays, when in fact, the U.S. government's rationale is Iran's attempt to produce nuclear weapons. The U.S. has, over the years, supported many countries where people of all kinds have been openly persecuted, so that rationalization wouldn't fly, anyway.

And the U.S. has targeted civilians many times. The Philippines, Korea, and Vietnam come to mind immediately, where millions of women and children alone, died as a direct result of U.S. state violence. In the case of Korea, Curtis Le May said on a number of occasions that civilians were targeted in very large numbers.

The sanctions against Iraq in the 90s also targeted civilians in an attempt to pressure them to depose Saddam Hussein. Hundreds of thousands of society's most vulnerable (like children) died through lack of clean water and treated sewage. Various medicines were also withheld because they presumably fit the description of biological and chemical weapons.

The invasion of Iraq was justified through lies and conspiracy, where perhaps as many as a million people died as a result, but apparently your contention is, that the U.S. government isn't responsible because it claims civilians were not targeted. The flaws in that line of reasoning are obvious, so I'll just let it lie there.