From: "John Beamish" 

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.


"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
message news:3f863735$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> John,
>
> The United States didn't put Hussein in power. The US was not Hussein's
> big patron. The USSR and France were.
>
> Where did you learn the fiction that the United States put Hussein into
> power? He did it himself and using rather ruthless methods.
>
> John Beamish wrote:
> > I read the Globe and Mail (a far from leftist paper) and the National
Post
> > (a paper to which the word "leftist" is as applicable
as it would be to
> > either Bush.)
> >
> > But, more to the point, neither Russia nor France put Hussein in power.
> >
> > "Randall Parker"

wrote
> > in message news:3f85ca93$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >
>

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