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To: Beenliedto
Desert Storm (Gulf War I) came about after SH invaded his neighbor (which was practicing slant drilling).

Okay, a case can be made that Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq, but war was not the answer. I'm disappointed that you haven't said that yourself.

His invasion only tookplace after our ambassador had assured him that the US would not react... Saddam was set up.

This is simply not true. Expressing hopes for peace (or whatever was said, I don't recall) does not equate with approval of invasion. It is a well-known factoid that no such assurance took place.

Viet Nam did not become a "big time" was until the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which in fact did not take place.. it was an out-and-out lie prepetrated by LBJ.

True enough. Which lie, I remind those readers of the Democrat persuasion, was told by a Democratic President and embraced whole-heartedly by the Democratic Party, because it meant many, many jobs for democratic factory workers.

Yes, Vietnam may well have stayed "small-time" for a few years more, until North Vietnam and Ho Chi Min grew tired of killing only a few S. Vietnamese at a time. Thank you, I had forgotten about the terrorism practised by Ho Chi Min against the South.

61 posted on 10/13/2002 10:24:52 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr
Okay, a case can be made that Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq, but war was not the answer.

So why are you not saying that today when it is the US on much less justification is banging war drums?

80 posted on 10/13/2002 12:21:09 PM PDT by Demidog
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