"...Claiming Reagan is not in any way to blame because he didn't actually set off the gas, personally, is retarded. Was Stalin blameless because he didn't pull the trigger on millions of Russians? Was Khomeini blameless because he didn't take the Americans hostage himself? Was Pol Pot blameless because he didn't personally kill all those Cambodians? Like I said: you're a retard."
There were THREE possibilities asked of you...
Designed to cover the three ways in which a person can commit an atrocity...
1. Did he press the launch-button on those gas attacks
personally?
2. Did he
order those gas attacks?
3. Did he cajole (
influence) Saddam into making those gas attacks?
...and
you only dealt (here) with the
first of the three.
The difference between Reagan and the others (Stalin, Khomeni, Pol Pot) is that Reagan neither ordered nor cajoled his subordinates nor allies into committing such acts.
If there is anything 'retarded' going on here, it is childishly focusing upon one (1) form of personal responsibility, while ignoring the the other manifestations of personal responsibility, or lack thereof, in this case...
If Reagan neither (1) pulled the trigger
NOR (2) ordered the actions
NOR (3) cajoled his ally into such actions, then... (4)
he did not commit atrocities, as you so foolishly claim.
You can twist and squirm and wiggle on the hook all you like, but you've failed to substantiate your claim that ol' Ronnie Raygun committed atrocities (
neither by person nor by order nor by influence).
Epic Fail.
Now
THAT's a little closer to meeting the stereotypical definition of 'retarded' in this narrow whimsical context.
Not bad, for a supposed 'retard', I expect.
Then again, that may be unfair of me, picking on a lightweight like that...