[The_Rorschach]

"What about my point about the sanctions?"

Really, the wholes in your limited knowledge could consume worlds. Why were the sanctions imposed? August 6, 1990, just four days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, sanctions were imposed by the UN as the first multilateral act of war against Iraq. A year after the coalition rebuffed Saddam imperialistic endeavours, the sanctions were kept in place as to pressure him into releasing captured prisoners of war - which he did, hesitantly. They've been in place ever since simply to keep Iraq more maleable to the UN's ministrations over his country.

Thats the official explanation. The real reason is because of twits like you who refused to see Bush the First carry the war to the conclusion it should have rightly come to; Removing Hussein from power. Domestic pressure, and unfavourable regard for what the public saw as a personal war between Bush and Saddam, kept the US from pursuing a regime change in Iraq, so instead, we were persuaded to continue sanctions rather than wage a war against the nation of Iraq which was the direction we were heading in. Really, what was your point?

"Why did we set him up instead of a democracy?"

Christ, now you're championing the misinformation of Michael Moore. The operation against Iran's premier in 1953, code-named TP-AJAX, was the blueprint for a succession of CIA plots to foment coups and destabilize governments during the cold war - including the agency's successful coup in Guatemala in 1954 and the disastrous Cuban intervention known as the Bay of Pigs in 1961. But back to Iran; the Truman administration rejected the plan, but President Eisenhower approved it shortly after taking office in 1953, because of fears about oil and Communism. You see, its hard for you to imagine anything but the fat happy life you lead now (thanks, by the way, to men like Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson), but the cold war was not only very real then, but the stakes were so high it wasn't about winner take all, it was about preventing mutually assured destruction. The Soviets had Mosaddeq in their pocket, and were planning on using him for purposes of economical sabotage. It was of critical importance, not just to the United States, but to the non-social world, that such a thing did not come to pass.


"He received security training from the CIA itself, according to Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian."

Christ, you lack the reading comprehension most of us had by third grade. We trained him, along with untold numbers of others, so they could defend their worthless homeland against the very much imperialist actions of the Russians. That does not make him an employee of the CIA.

"And that makes it acceptable that we did nothing to help the Kurds?"

Actually, we censured him and then reported his actions to the UN, who made a full examination of the affair and eventually took action against him. Did the UN move with blinding speed? No. Did more Kurds die in the interim? Yes. Did we, in the end, help the Kurds? Yes.