Recently heard at the office ...."SAddam HUssein,

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should be removed from power for the good of the Iraqi people. So we send some of our jerky jock-type soldiers over there to blow him up. So what?"

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One thing I wonder about - you hear this finger-wagging re "Saddam & Taliban are USA creations". Well then, doesn't it follow that maybe they (Saddam & Taliban etc) should be held accountable for being disloyal and trying to double-cross their benefactors all the time, instead of blaming the US for cultivating these associations? If the CIA really does own their asses then I see no reason not to kill them on principle if they step out of line.

― dave q, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe the CIA should be a bit more careful when they create people in the first place.

Saddam Hussein is not a creation of the CIA, however. Although his rise to power was at points assisted by them, he would have come to power anyway. He was a US ally for much of the 1980s, but that's not the same as seeing him as some kind of creature of the Americans.

― DV, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you currently working in the White House Mike?

― stevo, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The comma and lack of second " in the thread title make it look like Saddam Hussein is Hanle y Deus's nom de guerre.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"And me? You can call me...SADDAM HUSSEIN!"

I think the whole threat of US intervention deal is just to scare Saddam into doing not a whole lot -- action elsewhere can imply action there without actually having to do anything, and I rather doubt the US gov't wants to spend *that* much time, effort, money, blood, etc. subduing the whole country. We'll see.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The US govt can look big and threatening, and Saddam can hold onto power, looking like he's resisting the great Satan, and both their egos are satisfied.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or will the Bush baby try to outdo his Bush daddy?

― DG, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well hey! Realpolitik where both sides win. Not the actual *people* of course...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SADDAM AND HIS HATED MUSTCAHE! I DOTN WORK AT THE WHIOTE HOUSE, JUST THE CHATTY HOUSE

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

THE CHATTY HOUSE IS RUNNING THE WORLD

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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