No problem. Here's one And another And one more Yeah, America has done bad shit in he past. So we're supposed to now watch and do nothing while terrorists are being trained to kill us and our allies, just because we funded the bad guys 30 years ago? No, I would call killing at least 20 million of your own people as political dissidents under one administration and running the one of most opressive totalitarian states in history "evil," wouldn't you? If something along the scale of the USSR still existed (which it dosen't), and Saddam was willing to help us fight it, then sure, we would let him do as he pleased. But now there is no "greater evil" to be fought, and the decisions we were forced to make have now come back to bite us in the ass. Isn't it only right that the U.S. removes the opressive didctators that we put into power back then? If we didn't, you would be compaining that the U.S. put Saddam into power, but then did nothing once he got out of control. No matter what we do, you would still complain. When nukes can kill millions of your people tomorrow, you really can't afford to think about the long term effects of your actions. As for America supporting brutal regines, that was in the past. How many times are you going to bring up the Contras, bin Laden, etc.? We haven't supported anyone like the Iyatollah since we needed to (the Cold War). No argument. Bad Shit happened as a result of "red scares," and most of it was sensationalist bull, but at the same time you can't say that such fears were unfounded either. What needs clarifying? People on the forums are attacking Bush for his actions during the Iraq War with events that he was probably too stoned to have even watched on the news anyway.
...said the Guardianista. Actually Chile probably has the most successful economy in Latin America. When Pinochet finally left his democratically elected successors basically maintained the free market policies he had forced on the country, because they had popular support. However he is a figure of universal hate for the left, which is why denial of his economic acheivements is so vital.
