Reply #31: I think you had better squee-gee that third eye there [View All]

[MadHound]

Your perception is getting a bit cloudy.

We were the ones who initiated the no fly zones. We were also the ones who continued the hostilities after Gulf War I was over, by bombing the bejesus out of innocent Iraqis. And as you said, people fight back, which is just what Saddam did, by trying to attack coalition air forces. Granted he had limited(and shortly there after no) access to planes, so what resistance he could put up was small and futile. Yet we just kept right on bombing the shit out of innocent Iraqis, thrice a week, almost like clockwork.

As for the oil for food program, well that wasn't instituted until 1998, mainly at the behest(and the profit) of American oil companies. If you are talking about black market oil sales before then, well I'm sure that Dick Cheney and Haliburton could give you more details, but my one question on this is how the hell else was such a resource deprived country supposed to go about making a buck?

And Muddle my friend, you have it all backwards. The Japanese offered up a surrender, with one condition. Now if this one condition was so reprehinsble before we nuked Japan, why did we accept that same condition after we nuked them(along with several others)?