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Its simply an attempt to elevate the status of the invasion of Iraq. There is no valid comparison.
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---I always find it humorous when people with no reasonable counterpoint try to dodge real points made by others.
We are speaking of the relativism of dealing with bad guys. No matter what time frame or what country- the issue is the lesser evil of dealing with bad guys to achieve a greater good- and the occasional backlash that you run the risk of.
So to try to dismiss it is simply an attempt to dodge a point for which you have no reasonable answer.
We sided with Stalin AFTER he had murdered more people than Hitler ever would. Sent weapons on Lend-Lease and much of our involvement in the Pacific helped to offset the japanese threat to the russian east so they could counter west into europe.
So ask yourself whether we were morally right in supporting a murdering madman from a country that would later force a cold war and the constant threat of nuclear war....but we supported him against Nazi's.
Should we have not fought the Nazi's?
At the time the Iranians had already been leading the world in terror activities and had taken US citizens hostage for 444 days. Saddam was a thug even then, but he wasn't taking US citizens hostage and bombing airliners. So we supported Saddam so we could fight the iranians indirectly rather than invading them- which was a very real possibility in the early 80's.
Saddam used chemical weapons and was immediately denounced by the world and dumped by the US. Shortly thereafter a french bought missile slammed into a US warship. Sorry to shatter the lefty illusion that we were all cozy with saddam. Damn those nagging facts....
But moral relativism is not black and white and neither the lefty kool aid drinkers or the righty bible thumpers are in any position to force their narrow moral view on history. Hindsight is 20/20 and utterly useless.
We used nazi scientists to create not only a space program (based DIRECTLY on V2 terror bomb designs) but also a nuclear arsenal.
I don't know what kind of car you drive but you do know that Henry Ford was a raging anti-semite that wrote a book called The International Jew? Didn't know that?
It's a pain in the ass ploy to try to apply moral relativism to history just to make some bullshit political point. The first thing any bible thumper will tell you is don't judge the current church for the Crusades.
Mistakes can be made, but rarely are the made maliciously. I think clinton was a total boob and I personally buried many friends because of his wag the dog wars. But I don't think he did it to HURT the country, he was just a complete moron, trailer park piece of shit. But I don't have some conspiracy theory he was out to damage the US, his incompetance just made it happen. Bush certainly falls into this catagory too.
Also remember that our favorite country- Israel - was born by jewish terrorists, then aided by europe and the US to herd the local palestinian population into squalid camps that grew into squalid towns over 50 years. Exactly like the herding of American Indians onto 'reservations'.
BTW, bet you don't mind so much all that land the white man used to turn the US into a world power- just had to kick the natives off the land to get it.
We all reap the benefits of atrocities and the suffering of others.
To try to look down your nose at the decisions of history, while living a life only available because of those decisions, is just hypocritical as hell.
Hes right. History is black and white. We have pictures to prove it!
