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saddam hussein was a product of british colonial strategies, as were the divisions within iraq that he sat atop & controlled in an often quite brutal manner--with american support for most of his regime, btw. more or less up to the invasion of kuwait no less.
no-one has ever said he was a swell guy, but the fact is that for many years he was an american-supported dictator & for that whole time there wasn't a whole lot of shirt-rending from american conservatives about what was happening there for some strange reason. but now, of course, things are otherwise, particularly for those who politically supported the bush administration & it's debacle of a military adventure and who continue to support it.
i wasn't aware that the thread was about whether conservatives do or do not personally like their imaginary "progressives" counterparts.
i thought it was mostly about how information concerning iraq is now being spun, when it emerges at all in the cycle of trivia that passes for news.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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