Sudan WARNS Britain and the US to mind their own business.

[VorLonUK]

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Originally posted by: Lord Raiden
I agree with Overkill and the poster he quoted (too lazy to find out who specifically).  The US seems to have this strange policy of "My enemy's enemy is my friend."  IE if you're an enemy of someone who's my enemy, I'm your friend.  But the moment you become an enemy to a friend or are no longer useful in your previous roll, you can very quickly fall into the enemy catagory all over again.

Very True LR,

There seem to be some world hotspots with particular sensitivety. I can see there being greater problems with the Middle East until the Israel/Palestinian issue is resolved to some degree. I wonder if it will eventually cause a greater rift between Europe and the US, with the UK trying it's best to span both...

[Rugged]

lesser of the two evils policy.  the same reason the us backed france and not germany in ww2.

see saddam was gearing up for war with iran, a shiara nightmare.  Iranians are smarter and work harder than iraqis, therefore they had better weapons, plus since Iraq was secular and iran was shiara we had to take tha madmen in the region down a peg.  We sold / gave lend leased saddam weapons, including wmds.

After 5 years of fighting, iran started losing, we needed some money for another venture, so we sold some arms to iran to keep them even.

the ONLY 2 things bad about saddam is that he's a psychopathic murderer and that he didn't like america.  He sure kept his people in line, he didnt take care of them so well, but they weren't all over the world causing mahem.

Iran is iraq exponential.   Iran will have to be razed to get a victory there, same with pakki.

[Zut50]

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Originally posted by: Rugged
lesser of the two evils policy.  the same reason the us backed france and not germany in ww2.

LOL! And there I was thinking that America rallied to aid its allies!!

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see saddam was gearing up for war with iran, a shiara nightmare.  Iranians are smarter and work harder than iraqis, therefore they had better weapons, plus since Iraq was secular and iran was shiara we had to take tha madmen in the region down a peg.  We sold / gave lend leased saddam weapons, including wmds.

After 5 years of fighting, iran started losing, we needed some money for another venture, so we sold some arms to iran to keep them even.

the ONLY 2 things bad about saddam is that he's a psychopathic murderer and that he didn't like america.  He sure kept his people in line, he didnt take care of them so well, but they weren't all over the world causing mahem.

Iran is iraq exponential.   Iran will have to be razed to get a victory there, same with pakki.

Couldn't you just 'not attack anyone'. Its a policy that alot of other countries have had for quite some time now.

What are you on about here Rug?!?

[Rugged]

what fun would that be?

on the real, the france comment was humor.... you'll get better at recognizing it if I last here.  

In truth, I believe that our little excercise in Iraq, coupled with what we did this weekend (we fired up the military global communications array and has a 12 aircraf carrier battlegroup in the pacific, coordinate simulated attacks with nuke subs in the gulf and in the atlantic, a 50,000 troop excersise in germany, etc...)   has removed the inevitability from fighting pakistan.  Plus we just offered them f-16s and 18s in exchange for bin laden.

Iran we may still have to fight, nokor as well, but the arab musslim's teeth are pulled for now.




Although sudan has recently denied any acts of genocide have been commited there.

Vorlon  I refer to the kosovar wars of the mid 90's of which you are well aware I have a low opinion of US involvement in.  The UN was screaming genocide and ethnic cleansing, but none was present and none's been proved.  They can't put milosovic on trial because there is ZERO evidence, and they can't return him to power because then they would have to (they being the UN) admit they lied about the whole thing in the first place.

Milosovic will rot until he dies and then they will sweep the US' rape of serbia under the rug (not this rug) for evermore.

There you go zut50. with the addition of the normandy invasion and the routing of the reich from france you now have two examples of military actions I don't believe we should have taken.