tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post8320348880174634917..comments2023-09-30T08:07:26.165-04:00Comments on Mystical Politics: Anne Applebaum on SaddamRebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post-86088751555009662122007-01-30T21:29:00.000-05:002007-01-30T21:29:00.000-05:00"3) The U.S. and other countries did not recognize..."3) The U.S. and other countries did not recognize his regime for what it was (the horrors of internal terror) until he invaded Kuwait"<br /><br />This seems to me an extremely inaccurate, and unhelpful, description.<br /><br />It starts its convenience by lumping in all movers in the U.S. government as one, and describing them as "the U.S." <br /><br />This is only the beginning of how such a description goes wildly wrong, IMO. <br /><br />Just for starters, the Cheney/Rumsfeld were perfectly knowledgeable of whom they were dealing with when they passed on U.S. intel, and other valuable military knowledge, to the Saddam Hussein regime. Claiming otherwise, or that the U.S. "didn't recognize" the nature of the Hussein regime is, well, a complete lie, and a total cover-up of the lie. <br /><br />It's nonsense. It didn't happen that way. It's a lie.Gary Farberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02883503507068654673noreply@blogger.com