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Originally Posted by cmac2012
This is a good illustration of why we are so hated in the world. Oh those naughty countries, dealing with an a$$ like Saddam to get oil.
Numerous other examples of us F***ing people over for fun and profit but you guys want to crucify Europe and others for doing about the same with Saddam.
Doesn't make any of that right, but drop the sanctimonious posture, will ya?
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As I have said to many others that whine about how bad we are compared to others when we screw around with other people's lives. Leave this armpit of the world and go somewhere else where it is better. I did. Why can't they? Unless that better part doesn't want them. That is a 2 pronged statement. The first part is pretty evident. If that place is better, go to it. I thought the USA was better than what I left behind. I went to the better side of the road. NOW FOR THE SECOND PART. Go to what you consider the better side of the road. Stay there for any length of time and you will see some of the dirty underhanded tricks they too pull. Fact is it happens all over the world. Europe also pulls the same crap in some way or the other. It happens in Developed countries as well as 3rd world countries. Fact it, it is "par for the course". My gripe is why is it when others do it, we gloss over it. When the USA does it, it is a cardinal sin. Why? Isn't sauce for the goose sauce for the gander?
May not make things right either way but again, it is par for the course. Play on. Everyone has a reason for doing or not doing something. You think Russia, France and Germany didn't want in on this war because they believed or disbelieved Bush? They did what they did because they calculated that this was not profitable for them. Without Hussien in power, contracts with France and Germany would be null and void. What about the money that Hussien owes Russia? See above. Did you remember reading an article about how those same countries were griping that the US gives rebuilding contracts first to itself and it's allies in the conflict? Why? Why would they be interested in getting a piece of some immoral action?
Answer is that nobody is in it for the morality or the right and wrong. Right and wrong are coincidently 5 letter words that mean nothing when you are talking about this sort of thing. Look at what Mercmad6.3 is mad about. His govt "believed" Bush and diverted 800 mil or whatever figure from his fav program to support the war with troops. You think their PM cared a whit one way or the other? Nope. His PM only figured that it was more profitable in the long run for them to be involved even if it was a token force than to stay out and so the Australian involvement. It is all about an investment. Bottom line is that it is about their own self benifit.