From: "John Beamish" 

I didn't say anything about the "UN being able to stop the US". 
I merely said they should have.


"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
message news:3f886b8d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> John,
>
> As I've already said, France, Russia, and later China were the big
> Saddam supporters. Those are 3 UN Security Council permanent member votes.
>
> Your fantasies about the UN being able to stop the US from supporting
> Saddam are ludicrous since the 3 UNSC members who most opposed the US
> overthrow of Saddam were supporting him long before the US decided to
> overthrow him. The USSR and France have been selling Saddam arms for
> decades. But you drag the US into it while seemingly oblivious to the
> real score.
>
> John Beamish wrote:
>
> > Brain cramp -- but not mine.  As I wrote "Quite right:  the UN should
have
> > stopped the US from supporting Hussein with arms and munitions."
> >
> > Equating "supporting Hussein" with "put Hussein
into power" is a
conclusion
> > I neither made nor inferred.
> >
> >
>

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