A few gems from Whiskey Papa:
"I'll say again that based on what I knew in 1992, I would vote for Bill Clinton ten times out of ten before I would vote for George Bush Sr." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
- - - "All these deaths of U.S. citizens --the death of EVERY U.S. citizen killed by Arab terror in the United States, can be laid directly at the feet of George Bush I." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
SOURCE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?page=452#448
- - - "I'll say again that based on what I knew in 1992, I would vote for Bill Clinton ten times out of ten before I would vote for George Bush Sr." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02 SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?q=1&&page=401#420
- - - "As you doubtless know, the separation of powers in that Pact with the Devil we call our Constitution, gives only Congress the right to raise and spend money." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
SOURCE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?page=432#432 - - - "Nationalism and socialism are opposites." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
SOURCE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?page=570#516 - - - "First of all, the AJC [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] is -not- an "ultra-leftist" newspaper, and you know it." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/13/02
SOURCE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/784464/posts?page=70#70 - - - "I feel that admiration for Reagan has rightly diminished over time, and rightly so." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
SOURCE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?page=432#432
Walt
- - - "All these deaths of U.S. citizens --the death of EVERY U.S. citizen killed by Arab terror in the United States, can be laid directly at the feet of George Bush I." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
SOURCE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?page=452#448
Found this:
"Among those instrumental in tilting U.S. policy toward Baghdad during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war was Donald Rumsfeld, now defense secretary, whose December 1983 meeting with Saddam as a special presidential envoy paved the way for normalization of U.S.-Iraqi relations. Declassified documents show that Rumsfeld traveled to Baghdad at a time when Iraq was using chemical weapons on an "almost daily" basis in defiance of international conventions.
The story of America's involvement with Saddam in the years before his 1990 attack on Kuwait - which included large-scale intelligence sharing, supply of cluster bombs through a Chilean front company, and facilitating Iraq's acquisition of chemical and biological precursors - is a topical example of the underside of U.S. foreign policy. It is a world in which deals can be struck with dictators, human rights violations sometimes overlooked and accommodations made with arms proliferators, all on the principle that the "enemy of my enemy is my friend." Throughout the 1980s, Saddam's Iraq was the sworn enemy of Iran, then still in the throes of an Islamic revolution. U.S. officials saw Baghdad as a bulwark against militant Shiite extremism and the fall of pro-American states like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and even Jordan - a Middle East version of the Communist "domino theory." That was enough to turn Saddam into a strategic partner and for U.S. diplomats in Baghdad to refer routinely to Iraqi forces as "the good guys," in contrast to the Iranians, depicted as "the bad guys."
Now, I will ask you:
Why do you think after all this U.S. aid, did Saddam Hussein try and assassinate George Bush Sr. in 1993?
Walt