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Originally Posted by EliteWebmaster
Here's the sad reality. wehateporn is partially correct, it's propaganda from the western countries about Assad wanting to use chemical weapons. True, he has the capabilities and he might be using it. But hearing my great USA saying it leaves me with deja vu all over again when they ramped up the rhetoric like how we claimed there was WMD in Iraq. Smells the same. No pun intended  It's a precursor for a foreign invasion into Syria and it's going to happen, there is little doubt about it. |
Thats pretty delusional. "WMDs" was not the only reason for Iraq. Look, i'm not supporting or not supporting Iraq and obviously the arguments were weak because no other intelligence agencies/governments on the globe agreed (apart from Britain).
However, you have to look at the context of that event. The WMD's argument was something that was cultivated over more than a decade, Iraq did have WMD's, Iraq had used WMD's and Iraq wanted the world to believe they had and were prepared to use WMD's (to keep Iran at bay). The continually refused to allow inspectors from the U.N. to do their jobs. They could not account for their supposed destruction of their stockpiles. They could not account for anything. At the same time, they were hostile and provacative and were in this position because of them rolling into Kuwait and trying to take the country for themselves as they raped, robbed and pillaged, then destroying most of the oil wells on their way out causing one of the worlds largest environmental catastrophes.
Anyway, sentiment towards Iraq and Saddam was the result of Iraq/Iran war, his invasion of Kuwait, his brutal suppression of uprising in his own country (i.e. gassing the Kurds, wantonly kidnapping and killing anyone they disagreed with, strafing crowds with attack helicopters etc etc etc) and then finally, his behavior afterwards for over 10 years. It was not the result of a spontaneous "he has WMD's" argument.
Syria is nothing.
Assad is nobody.
It is still a shitty country, whose development is hobbled by religion and archaic views/traditions, with no aspirations to be anything other than what it is.
It's a minor opportunity to put a reasonable government into the region - which are usually short lived or backfire anyway.
.... And on a side note... anyone who's forced to get their news from Russia Today to make a point, automatically loses.