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Operation: Hammer Time
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Let's stop with the disinformation.
[quote name="SBDMT"]<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/walden/sad_timeline.shtml">This</a> pretty much explains everything, and it's the most objective thing I could find not in Arabic. Snipped for the retarded "...the USA put him in power...." faggotry people love to spin about: [quote] By extending warfare to the Gulf states' shipping, he managed to involve the US in the conflict - against Iran - in the name of protecting oil shipping lanes. [/quote] Oh, guess he was already in power. Whoops! We seemed to be forced in a situation where we could preserve the flow of a crucial energy source by siding against insane, kidnappy-Islamic motherfuckers. Would we do it all over again, with hindsight being 20/20? PROBABLY!!1! Find me motherfucking <i>proof</i> that we sponsored ANY of his coups, attempted or successful. Donald Rumsfeld meeting with him briefly in 1984 under those particular circumstances isn't good enough, sorry.[/quote]