Near the tail end of the Bush Presidency, Mr. Bush did a fair amount of sabre-rattling toward Iran. Disturbed by this display of bravado, a then Senator Biden took to the airwaves and said that if Bush didn't get an authorization from the Congress, it could potentially be an impeachable offense. Funny how we didn't hear a peep out of him when it looked like Mr. Obama was contemplating similarly. Funny hypocritically, I'm saying.
It being Biden, it is surprising he didn't say Iraq. Remember this is the same man who has said Afghanistan was part of the nuclear club.
ReplyDeleteWill, I'm sure you realize how thoroughly hypocritical both facist leaning parties are. right?
ReplyDeleteYeah, there is hypocrisy on both sides as I'm hearing now that Mr. Limbaugh has morphed into some sort of peacenik.............But I do a special kick out of the left here, fellas'. Assad gasses a couple hundred and this is something that needs to addressed immediately but the 50,000 Kurds and 100,000 Iranians that Hussein gassed and the hundreds of thousands more that he tortured with impugnity, not so much.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, Hussein at that time was our buddy, an enemy of our enemy .
ReplyDeleteWhen he gassed the Iranians but not the Kurds, I don't believe. And the fact that he DID use them in the past could still have arguably been an rationale for his ouster (Assad is a piker compared to Hussein and Obama is still trying to use this humanitarian angle).
ReplyDeleteIraq used nerve gas against Iranian troops as early as 1984.
ReplyDeleteNear the end of the Iraq/Iran
war, Hussein used Sarin on Kurds
in March, 1988. We note-
"International response at the time was muted. The United States intelligence and government suggested that that Kurdish civilians were not a deliberate target, and even that Iran was indeed responsible". He was at that time 'the enemy of our enemy'.
Times and circumstances change.
Yes, Assad is a piker compared to
Hussein (100,000 dead, compared to 200,000 dead) but Assad has been in power only 13 years compared to
Saddam's 24. They both were Baathists and have similar modus
operandi. Seems to be the norm in that part of the world.
Rush Limbaugh and Code Pink are united in their view of the Syrian situation. Yikes!!
ReplyDeleteLimbaugh and Chomsky are also united in their denial/support of the Serbian holocaust visited against Kosovo, Bosnia, and Croatia in the 1990's.
ReplyDeleteStrange bedfellows indeed.