George Schulz/ Donald Rumsfeld- War Criminals?

National Security Archives demonstrate clearly how the United States government embraced Saddam hussein even as he used weapons of mass destruction, telling him that its public statements against chemical weapons were merely pablum for public consumption. Read the story from the LA TImes, and then visit the archives yourself:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer30dec30,1,5168418.column

How can anyone accuse George Schulz of being a war criminal?? "Peanuts" was always a gentle, thoughtful and life-affirming cartoon strip.

I think this is obviously some sort of witch-hunt!

Trix

Get up Trixie!

the Cajun

I am always "up", sir!

Trix

>Read the story from the LA TImes, and then

>visit the archives yourself:

Hey, Lucky - didn't your mommy teach you the difference between a newspaper "story" and an Op-Ed opinion column?

What you are quoting from is not a "story from the LA Times" - any more than Op-Ed columns by William Safire or David Brooks are "stories from the NY Times." What are you are citing is an OPINION column by Robert Scheer, columnist for The Nation and probably the single most extreme leftist (complete with the trite and pathetic 1960s long hair and full facial beard) writing for major publications today.

As for the "substance" of this column - every single U.S. Government, Democrat and Republican, since World War 2 (at least) has used alliances with bad people and nasty countries to support our foreign policy objectives. That's the duty of U.S. Presidents. In case you haven't heard, Josef Stalin and his uniquely repressive Communist Russia was a prime ally of the United States under FDR during World War II.

Have the foreign policy arguments of liberals really descended to this level of juvenile stupidity?

We allied with Russia, but we did not then turn around and invade them for doing the things we encouraged them to do as allies. We didn't tell pablum to the public and tell Stalin that he could just ignore it because it was only for public consumtion We didn't risk the lives of thousands to push our ally out of power, nor did we spend billions to do it.

Those are some differences my mommy taught me. Apparently your egg carrier only stayed long enough to pick up her check.

Trix, my message should have read "You're up on it." I don't know how that came out that way. I must have been a republican for a second or two. It all got garbled. Happy New Year to you. Same to Lucky

the Cajun

>Trix, my message should have read "You're up on it." I don't

>know how that came out that way. I must have been a

>republican for a second or two. It all got garbled. Happy

>New Year to you. Same to Lucky

One shudders to contemplate the ravenous heaps of food which must get shoveled into that bottomless pit of a stomach of yours when you are not merely being your normal gluttenous self, but when you are actually "celebrating" a holiday and therefore giving yourself carte blanche to pig out.

Horrifying. I bet lots of food chunks get caught in that beard of yours, which stay there all night after you pass out on the couch from being stuffed.

Ever hear of the Cold War? Costs the lives of thousands and cost countless billions of dollars.

We won it eventually, by the way, and pushed our former ally out of power.

>Ever hear of the Cold War? Costs the lives of thousands and

>cost countless billions of dollars.

>

>We won it eventually, by the way, and pushed our former ally

>out of power.

Gosh, Pyell - when you express your rational, moderate side and say things like this - exactly what I was going to say when answering Lucky until I got distracted by another topic - I become so enamored of all things Australian!

I think it's time to confess, in the spirit of internationalism inspired by your insightful post, that my favorite tennis player is Lleyton Hewitt.