re: #386 Cannadian Club Akbar

Bingo.

Bear in mind (there’s no way you could know this) but I was initially against Desert Storm. I thought and still think it was largely our cock-up (remember April Glaspie?) and that there was reason for Saddam to be pissed at Kuwait (remember lateral drilling?). But once we were committed I became a jusqu’au-boutiste and thought it was a crime of historic proportions not to finish the job.

All the shit about how evil Saddam was was already known to us at that point. Thing is, G.H.W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld had also been teabagging the man for decades, along with everyone else in official Washington.

The blood of those who died when we encouraged them to “rise up” and then left them dangling in the wind is still on those men’s hands.