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Originally Posted by roachboy
again, what does one's opinion of saddam hussein's regime have to do with the question of whether iraq is at this point slipping into civil war?
one of the folk who is pursuing this line of thinking in this thread MUST have some answer to this question.
it is not that hard.
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You'd have to start well before the last page of posts to find an answer, or the question.
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Originally Posted by martinguerre
How much money did we give him? How much poison gas did we hand over to a penny ante dictator?
The prohibition on re-writing history doesn't stop at 1991.
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Sorry to pick on you Martin. That's the top of my buffer but I believe it was right there or just before when things went slightly astray.
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