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plain and simple---Iraq was going to gas/murder/kill with or without the US helpjesus christ---please stop trying to argue with ME over military matters!
you just proved yourself ignorant of military matters
..the ship was near the combat zone......do you know what happens in/near combat zones????!!! COMBAT !!!!! ...many friendly fire ''''mistakes'''''......many ''''errors'''' .....civilian deaths
.....this happens in war ....if our ship is near a combat zone, it might get hit --plain and simple ....it's not the Iraqi's fault
SO,, it wasn't the Iraqis fault that they attacked one of our warships that was outside the exclusion zone, for the express purpose of protecting the free passage of shipping?
Hey, I wonder if the Japanese could have used that excuse after Pearl Harbor. 'Well, you ships just happened to be in the way of our bombs!"
...so, we sell crap to many countries...I guess we were at fault for the Tiananmen Square problem? Rwanda? we are at fault for everything..........????!!!!!!!!
Maybe we need to look at our behavior. Every enemy we've had in my lifetime is someone the CIA said was a swell guy at one point. Bin Laden, Saddam, etc.
Or here's a crazy idea. Let's just get the fuck out of the middle east altogether, take some of that bloated military budget and invest it in alternative energy... so they can't use their oil to make us dance.
they could get chemicals anywhere/etc
the US was not responsible
I guess since we sold gum to Germany in 1938, we are responsible for the Holocaust ???!!!
You are not responsible for the Holocaust - but you are responsible (not you personally and not the USA alone) for a mad situation in Germany after World War 1. It's not out of logic that mad situations find a mad man with mad solutions - such as the "Endlösung" = "final solution" of the jewish question. An empty phrase, which never anyone had asked in Germany before, because all relevant problems in this context had been solved three to four generations before Hitler came. And do not forget "your" own racism and crimes in this context, which was a motor for the Nazis too.
just plain ridiculous
Unfortunatelly not. WW1 and WW2 are the same war. Between world war 1 and 2 was a kind of economic war too. I'm for example convinced that the idea "aryan race" is not compatible with the German language. I guess it was a native English speaker who made this mistake. Same by the way with the "hun speech" of William II - the Prussian emperor over Germany - who was not only a Prussian but a Brit too and was educated from this grandma Queen Victoria.
the 'Aryan race' stuff was started in the 1870's, when Bismarck needed to unify the German Federation with some kind of common history. Max Weber was also an advocate, as were many German intellectuals. So ye,s it was a 'German thing', and it didn't originate with the Nazis or Hitler, neither did European antisemitism. The Germans had lots of help form their fellow Europeans when it came to 'the Jewish problem'. Antisemitism is a Team Europe sport.