andyh wrote:
simulacra wrote:
What are you talking about, what is the point of this thread?
Why do you think the CIA would turn a blind eye to saddam's attacks on the Islamist morons of the Ayatollah's in Iran?
The USA opposes backwards dictatorships, they help liberate countries from brutal oppression, I think your attitude is disgraceful because British and American troops died for Iraqi freedom!
Do you think you have freedom?
The USA opposes countries that do not accept the dollar in payment of oil or who try to start their own non-FR banking currencies.
Check your history, check the facts, see the world the way it really is.
If they cared about 'democracy' 'freedom' and all that kind of stuff then why have they not invaded Saudi Arabia yet?
Its so in your face its unbelievable.
It's because the USA has a history of supporting democracy and freedom that they wouldn't arbitrarily invade a country like Saudi Arabia.
The Gulf States trade with the US and keep a lid on much of the Salafist fundamentalism you have mentioned, they are also modernizing and the US and West can use trade and technology as leverage for them to cooperate with us on a financial basis, we have common interests with the Gulf States as the economy and trade between us is quite well developed, so why would the USA want to invade them?
If they started using the money for oil on palaces and weaponry as Saddam did, and started posing a threat to progress in the region, blowing up their own citizens as Assad was, massacring women and children with Russian weapons, then maybe the west would invade, or at least put it to a public vote.
In Bahrain they machine gunned the last lot who wanted democracy.
We stood by and did nothing.
In Saudi they don't have democracy at all, they have chop chop square in Riyadh.
As for the weapons they use ones we sold them so I guess thats OK cos we got paid some money for it.
