The True Iraq Appeasers

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Rumsfeld's recent speech to the American Legion infuriated me. Who does this jerk think he is, to insult the majority of Americans?

Please read this editorial by Peter Galbraith. (I had seen him on CSPAN this weekend and was very impressed by his ideas).

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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/08/31/the_true_iraq_appeasers/

The true Iraq appeasers

By Peter W. Galbraith  |  August 31, 2006

IN HIS MOST recent justification of his Pentagon stewardship, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reached back to the 1930s, comparing the Bush administration's critics to those who, like US Ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy, favored appeasing Adolf Hitler. Rumsfeld avoided a more recent comparison: the appeasement of Saddam Hussein by the Reagan and first Bush administrations. The reasons for selectivity are obvious, since so many of Hussein's appeasers in the 1980s were principals in the 2003 Iraq war, including Rumsfeld.
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In 1983, President Reagan initiated a strategic opening to Iraq, then in the third year of a war of attrition with neighboring Iran. Although Iraq had started the war with a blitzkrieg attack in 1980, the tide had turned by 1982 in favor of much larger Iran, and the Reagan administration was afraid Iraq might actually lose. Reagan chose Rumsfeld as his emissary to Hussein, whom he visited in December 1983 and March 1984. Inconveniently, Iraq had begun to use chemical weapons against Iran in November 1983, the first sustained use of poison gas since a 1925 treaty banning that.

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1. It doesn't matter.

The lies, the tragedy are nothing. As long as no sacrifice is asked of the majority of Americans and the talking head Media can keep people in the dark the war will continue.

and just for persepctive 872 Deployment days to go until 20 Jan 2009...