re: #130 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Yeah, see, I was totally opposed to that as well. “The Iraqis crossed an imaginary line in the sand drawn by some bureaucrat in the British Foreign Office in 1920? Oh, no!” Give me a fucking break. After Saddam had been Reagan/Bush’s fair-haired boy as long as he was killing Iranians? No, thanks!

I hear you about the lines and that Desert Storm isn’t as black and white as history makes it out to be but Kuwait’s sovereignty was violated by Iraq. FWIW I agree completely given that Reagan-Bush strongly armed Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war. Russia uses the fact that Ukrainian land is historically part of what we call Russia to justify their actions there. I guess my point was that critics of the first Bush weren’t degraded as people who spoke out against W and now Trump are. I think H.W. Bush and his handlers were much less tone deaf.