Our shallow victory
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Well old George W. must be doing something right. If the ultra liberals and the ultra conservatives hate him and he still has a 70%+ approval rating he can’t be doing all that bad.
What an interesting squabble! At least y'all have kept it a bit under control-more so than those rascals who get personal about airline ops. Well done, at least so far.
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According to a fairly recent tv show here, on either A&E, TLC, possibly on the Discovery Channel, a former CIA field operative described his work and training with some of the Kurdish forces in northern Iraq. This happened during the Clinton years. This agent said that a large number of weapons had been given to Kurdish forces in preparation for a serious attack on Saddam's army.
For some reason, former President Clinton decided not to begin the operation. I realize that this is a complex subject, but i f we can assume that plans were in place for a replacement regime or leader, does anybody know why Clinton backed out of the overall scheme? Was he afraid of the serious foreign policy reactions, even just his approval ratings plummeting among the UC Berkeley, UW Madison crowd etc, or was he aware of and apparently serious about the need for such an operation?
Here is the reason for using my #2 favorite icon (the skull) for this entry.
According to a fairly recent tv show here, on either A&E, TLC, possibly on the Discovery Channel, a former CIA field operative described his work and training with some of the Kurdish forces in northern Iraq. This happened during the Clinton years. This agent said that a large number of weapons had been given to Kurdish forces in preparation for a serious attack on Saddam's army.
For some reason, former President Clinton decided not to begin the operation. I realize that this is a complex subject, but i f we can assume that plans were in place for a replacement regime or leader, does anybody know why Clinton backed out of the overall scheme? Was he afraid of the serious foreign policy reactions, even just his approval ratings plummeting among the UC Berkeley, UW Madison crowd etc, or was he aware of and apparently serious about the need for such an operation?
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The CIA was supporting a Civil War, where the Kurds would seceed from Iraq, and become an independent State.
Saddam knew this, and reacted accordingly, just as Abraham Lincoln did.
Saddam knew this, and reacted accordingly, just as Abraham Lincoln did.
