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A little bit misleading, we didn't cosy up to Saddam Hussien because he was the good guy, we just felt he was less of a threat than Iran, which in that point at time, being run by the mad ayatollah who'd pronounced America the great satan and was sending out fatwahs on British authors, he probably was.

Steve R, I wish you would follow.
When replying to a post, click on the "Reply to this post" underneath then your reply appears in the correct place.

Mart

It's "Reply to this message", and I do.

My replies are in the places I want them to be as I view this page.

I, for my part, wish that you were able to make constructive posts, rather than just criticising other members.

Pedantic.
Of course you can reply wherever you want but it does help the rest of us to follow your thoughts if you follow the usual rules.

Btw, I havn't noticed many constructive posts from you. They're outweighed by your feeble attempts at "humour".

Mart

PS That taxi pic. looks like a Photoshop job.

Caveat lector: Infowars/Prison Planet are fully paid-up members of the tinfoil hat brigade

Fred wrote:

> Caveat lector: Infowars/Prison Planet are fully paid-up members
> of the tinfoil hat brigade


The other side of the coin being those people who, unlike ostriches, actually do bury their heads in the sand.

So what is it you're trying to tell us?

Mart

mart wrote:

> So what is it you're trying to tell us?


Only that one shouldn't necessarily believe what one reads in newspapers or what one is told by politicians, particularly if it conflicts with eyewitness testimony.

Well I'm pretty sceptical but when I start to pay attention to Fox News and Alex Jones book my place in the loony bin.

Mart

Hi, I have been looking at this forum for a while and have now thought of the urge to post a reply. I have been becoming increasingly interested incurrent affairs and would like to throw a titbit of US foreign policy onto this forum, particularly regarding the former MI6 asset, as the US administrations' support for harse and brutal regimes.

Previous US administrations have helped put into power & supported some of the most brutal dictators, and if they step out of line this is when they get the label of little Hitler, etc and must be overthrown to save the world from annilation, etc, completely forgetting (or ignoring) their previous relationships. Here are a few examples, for people to either agree/ disagree or ideally find out for themselves:

1953: The CIA funded a military coup against the democratically elected President of Guatemala: Hugo Arbenz Guznan, when he started a land-redistribution program and threw out the United Fruit Company, declassified documents boast how they were able, to , 'replace a charismatic and popular leader, with a political nonenity'.
1973: A nearly identical thing in Chile, with Salvdor Allende being replaced with good ole, General Pinochet.
3 more: Noreiga, Panama, 1989 // Hussain, Iraq, 1991 & 2003 - date // Taliban, Osama et al, Afghanistan: 2001 - date.

Noreiga was a CIA asset, when George Bush (version 1) was Head of the CIA, whom helped overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, following this the UN made a resolution stating: 'We call on all nations to observe & respect International law' the US vetoed this resolution. Studying US involvement in Latin America paints a nearly identical picture of the tactics used in todays Middle-East, the rhetoric has just changed from, 'defeating Communism' to, 'defeating terrorism'.

Here are a couple of quotes from an Oxfam book about the Sandinista revolution in Nicaraua between 1979 - 1984, and see what the Communist threat that the Reagan - Bush administration were soooooo scared of (remembering preious administrations supported the Somoza dictatorships):

'Since 1979 the scope for development has been enormous with remarkable progress'.
'For the first time offers the Nicaraguan people a modicum of justice'.
'The cornerstone of the new development strategy ... was to give priority to meeting the basic needs of the poor majority'.

I may have gone off the subject, but you cannot look at things in isolation, we must look at what has gone previously, check numerous sources (the last ones you should get your opinions from are TV, especially Fox News, lol). If anyone is interested in some useful documentaries, book titles to buy, etc, then just give me a shout. If you are interested in finding out about the overthrow of the Guatemalan democracy in 1953, the declassified CIA documents can be found at: www.foia.cia.gov.

Any reply or more facts/ sources for me to extent my knowledge would be greatfully received.

Cheers!

Philylad13.

P.S. A little question for people to ponder, if the US has supports and has supported brutal dictatorships, overthrown democracies, etc, what are their real aims? My guess is that they what regimes that are business-friendly, so those that want to nationalise their oil industries (Iraq and Iran) are out and those that allow control by US corporations are good guys (Saudi Arabia & Nigeria).