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	<title>Comments on: U.S. let Saddam gas Kurds for farm deal</title>
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		<title>By: ekunin</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747415</link>
		<dc:creator>ekunin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You can attribute the foolishness to capitalism. The war on drugs provides so many jobs, what’s a little injustice amongst friends? Why should it matter to anyone that someone chooses to spend his or her days in drug induced euphoria? They say addicts become criminals to support their habit.  If we didn’t do everything in our power to make their habit expensive, they wouldn’t have to break and enter.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can attribute the foolishness to capitalism. The war on drugs provides so many jobs, what’s a little injustice amongst friends? Why should it matter to anyone that someone chooses to spend his or her days in drug induced euphoria? They say addicts become criminals to support their habit.  If we didn’t do everything in our power to make their habit expensive, they wouldn’t have to break and enter.</p>
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		<title>By: bluebutterfly</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747251</link>
		<dc:creator>bluebutterfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;All part of the CIA drug profits. NATO will not touch the poppy crops. It is a family tradition to profit from drugs..that is where Poppy Bush got his nick name from.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All part of the CIA drug profits. NATO will not touch the poppy crops. It is a family tradition to profit from drugs..that is where Poppy Bush got his nick name from.</p>
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		<title>By: bluebutterfly</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747250</link>
		<dc:creator>bluebutterfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;It was on their to do list. They just weren’t going to do it themselves when they could sucker Sadaam into invading. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No morality and no doing right. Have you read PNAC? If not, you will find out the true motive of the US there. If you haven’t learned enough of the evil of the US, then read Rebuilding America’s Defenses.(both on Wiki)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was on their to do list. They just weren’t going to do it themselves when they could sucker Sadaam into invading. </p>
<p>No morality and no doing right. Have you read PNAC? If not, you will find out the true motive of the US there. If you haven’t learned enough of the evil of the US, then read Rebuilding America’s Defenses.(both on Wiki)</p>
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		<title>By: bluebutterfly</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747249</link>
		<dc:creator>bluebutterfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The death toll is estimated at one million. Sadaam got everything he needed from the US. Twice, a Bush president lied and went into Iraq using wmd as the excuse. Sadaam was a good guy when he was fighting Iran for 8 years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Israel bombed Sadaam’s weapons factory before Gulf War 1. Bush Sr. told Sadaam that if he invaded Kuwait, the US would not get involved. The Thatcher Library provided the Israel bombing info and Bush 1’s Library provided the actual conversations between Bush and Sadaam. You will have to trust that I read this because I would need a week of reading to find the info to provide a link. It is odd, but some presidential records are kept at Thatcher’s Library.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The death toll is estimated at one million. Sadaam got everything he needed from the US. Twice, a Bush president lied and went into Iraq using wmd as the excuse. Sadaam was a good guy when he was fighting Iran for 8 years.</p>
<p>Israel bombed Sadaam’s weapons factory before Gulf War 1. Bush Sr. told Sadaam that if he invaded Kuwait, the US would not get involved. The Thatcher Library provided the Israel bombing info and Bush 1’s Library provided the actual conversations between Bush and Sadaam. You will have to trust that I read this because I would need a week of reading to find the info to provide a link. It is odd, but some presidential records are kept at Thatcher’s Library.</p>
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		<title>By: shootthatarrow</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747248</link>
		<dc:creator>shootthatarrow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Getting here late and judging from many comments above most of the dots have been connected. Just would point out Americans are not the innocents in either post WW2 Iraq or Iran history.It is fair to suggest where the British Empire left off the American Empire picked up. Western powers meddling in Iran. American CIA playing puppetmaster in both Iraq and Iran.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What unfolded after the Shah was given the boot by Iranians in Iran could not be turned back by WashingtonDC. That really pissed off WashingtonDC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Still does.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As for Saddam the Americans surely played him both ways as it suited WashingtonDC. During the 1980’s Saddam was condoned by WashingtonDC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Along came Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait which considering what Iraq and Iran had been doing to each other was hardly strange neighborhood behavior but invading Kuwait was not on the Americans ‘to do’ list.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saddam found out what happens then.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saddam is dead now. Fair to say executed(no fingerprints style)by the Americans. As suggested by others above the Americans had reason to silence Saddam. He is quiet now. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dead quiet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Americans want to parade around West Asia as the international moral police and agents of the do right.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A truth/fact based history suggests this is more of the Big Lie tell.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Getting here late and judging from many comments above most of the dots have been connected. Just would point out Americans are not the innocents in either post WW2 Iraq or Iran history.It is fair to suggest where the British Empire left off the American Empire picked up. Western powers meddling in Iran. American CIA playing puppetmaster in both Iraq and Iran.</p>
<p>What unfolded after the Shah was given the boot by Iranians in Iran could not be turned back by WashingtonDC. That really pissed off WashingtonDC.</p>
<p>Still does.</p>
<p>As for Saddam the Americans surely played him both ways as it suited WashingtonDC. During the 1980’s Saddam was condoned by WashingtonDC.</p>
<p>Along came Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait which considering what Iraq and Iran had been doing to each other was hardly strange neighborhood behavior but invading Kuwait was not on the Americans ‘to do’ list.</p>
<p>Saddam found out what happens then.</p>
<p>Saddam is dead now. Fair to say executed(no fingerprints style)by the Americans. As suggested by others above the Americans had reason to silence Saddam. He is quiet now. </p>
<p>Dead quiet.</p>
<p>Americans want to parade around West Asia as the international moral police and agents of the do right.</p>
<p>A truth/fact based history suggests this is more of the Big Lie tell.</p>
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		<title>By: james</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747223</link>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The reason Bush senior went into Panama to get Noriega and have him “renditioned” to the US for drug trafficking was so Noriega wouldn’t blow the whistle Bush’s involvement in the smuggling. When Bush was VP and was in charge of the Southeast Drug Interdiction Task Force the amount of cocaine that entered the US INCREASED by more than 600%.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bush the idiot son goes into Afghanistan and the amount of opium produced increases by magnitudes of difference, not just by thousands of tonnes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And finally, the news tonight is using a teaser line that Hillary’s appointment as Secretary of State is unconstitutional because of the emoluments clause. Unfuckingconstitutional just rolls off their tongues now when it comes to an Obama move but not one fucling word about the abomination that is the Bush presidency.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reason Bush senior went into Panama to get Noriega and have him “renditioned” to the US for drug trafficking was so Noriega wouldn’t blow the whistle Bush’s involvement in the smuggling. When Bush was VP and was in charge of the Southeast Drug Interdiction Task Force the amount of cocaine that entered the US INCREASED by more than 600%.</p>
<p>Bush the idiot son goes into Afghanistan and the amount of opium produced increases by magnitudes of difference, not just by thousands of tonnes.</p>
<p>And finally, the news tonight is using a teaser line that Hillary’s appointment as Secretary of State is unconstitutional because of the emoluments clause. Unfuckingconstitutional just rolls off their tongues now when it comes to an Obama move but not one fucling word about the abomination that is the Bush presidency.</p>
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		<title>By: Phoenix Woman</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747178</link>
		<dc:creator>Phoenix Woman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;You might recall that shipping those arms to Iran was against the law.  And that most of the law-breakers skated on it. Then a lot of them came back in Bush II and were behind the Iraq War.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But it’s OK to do this, if you’re a Republican.  Hell, Dick Cheney’s Halliburton used and I believe still uses shell companies to do business in both Iraq and Iran, despite an Executive Order from Bill Clinton in the 1990s forbidding that sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But let Bill Clinton pardon a guy for doing this in the 1970s, and the pearl-clutching reaches epic proportions.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>You might recall that shipping those arms to Iran was against the law.  And that most of the law-breakers skated on it. Then a lot of them came back in Bush II and were behind the Iraq War.</p>
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<p>But it’s OK to do this, if you’re a Republican.  Hell, Dick Cheney’s Halliburton used and I believe still uses shell companies to do business in both Iraq and Iran, despite an Executive Order from Bill Clinton in the 1990s forbidding that sort of thing.</p>
<p>But let Bill Clinton pardon a guy for doing this in the 1970s, and the pearl-clutching reaches epic proportions.</p>
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		<title>By: lokywoky</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747172</link>
		<dc:creator>lokywoky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;That place looks like a bunker.  Concrete block walls on the faces.  Look at the size of those roof trusses!  Is he expecting something to fall on the roof?  Something really really large and heavy?  Amazing!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Looks like he’s trying to copy the neighbor’s house - on a lot that is half the size.  Ha Ha!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That place looks like a bunker.  Concrete block walls on the faces.  Look at the size of those roof trusses!  Is he expecting something to fall on the roof?  Something really really large and heavy?  Amazing!</p>
<p>Looks like he’s trying to copy the neighbor’s house &#8211; on a lot that is half the size.  Ha Ha!</p>
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		<title>By: prostratedragon</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747164</link>
		<dc:creator>prostratedragon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;What this thread needs is a video of “Ollie’s Doowop”by Rubén Blades. Anybody got one?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What this thread needs is a video of “Ollie’s Doowop”by Rubén Blades. Anybody got one?</p>
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		<title>By: MarkH</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/03/us-let-saddam-gas-kurds-for-farm-deal/#comment-1747161</link>
		<dc:creator>MarkH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I mean we can only hope that people like Libby, Rove, DeLay, Goodling and Bolton come back in another administration to push on!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bush III: Return of the Repubtards&lt;br /&gt;
Coming to a theater of war near you in 2012!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Yes, I mean we can only hope that people like Libby, Rove, DeLay, Goodling and Bolton come back in another administration to push on!</p>
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<p>Bush III: Return of the Repubtards<br />
Coming to a theater of war near you in 2012!</p>
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