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Edited on Wed May-26-04 04:21 PM by KoKo01
that he was a "Monster who gassed his own people, who tortured and maimed thousands, whose sons were rapists, torturers, murderers and sadists?"
There have been questions about why Saddam invaded Kuwait. There were questions about Poppy going in there, (I was around then) but, Poppy like his little devil spawn was coming off a popular Repug President's fervor (Reagan) and the Right Wing was just so enthralled about three terms of Repugs (OMG), most folks out in "mainstream America" believed what they told us when they showed us Spy Sattelite photos of Iraq encroaching over the border into Kuwait. We believed and we went into the Gulf War thinking we were "stabilizing the Middle East" by attacking a tyrant.
I remember CNN at that time, the night of the bombing with Peter Arnett and the guy from the "Weather Channel" (whose name I don't remember,who later died of a heart attack) standing on the roof of that Baghdad Hotel and showing the "rockets red glare" over baghdad." It was our first televised start to a war and we were "shocked and awed with our military might. I remmber Dick Cheney standing up daily with a pointer showing how well our bright, young, patriotic solders were doing fighting off the Evil Iraqi's. The daily "Military Press Conference" made it's first appearance in Gulf War I. I thought Cheney was a "cool dude." He seemed to be in total command with a high "Q" factor. I hated Poppy but thought Cheney was a "best and brightest."
I remember that reporter for the Pentagon, Wolf Blitzer, who people thought was kind of an odd ball with that beard thing, but he seemed to know "EXACTLY" what was going on in our military operations and was well spoken and put alot that we were doing into perspective. His name was funny and we joked about him (back when, I could discuss politics with friends) but everyone thought he was a neat "New Turk" in the CNN stable. Wolf did so well he got the top spot at CNN shortly after. Peter Arnett was fired from National Geographic at the start of "Operation Iraqi Liberation" under Poppy II for SPEAKING OUT. That other guy with Arnett is dead so who knows what would have happened to him. Back to the Weather Channel?
Anyway, looking back on all this, I'm having doubts about what we were told about "EVIL SADDAM-DEVIL INCARNATE." Saddam was OUR proped up Dictator. It was our job to take him out for his "evilness" or was it for WHAT HE KNEW? :shrug:
Just a rant....
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