Does this Photo disturb Republicans? Or, are you so calloused as to not care anymore?

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War#The_Tanker_War_and_Direct_U.S._Support_for_Iraq


Donald Rumsfeld meeting Saddam Hussein on 19 December - 20 December 1983. Rumsfeld visited again on 24 March 1984; the same day the UN released a report that Iraq had used mustard gas and tabun nerve agent against Iranian troops. The NY Times reported from Baghdad on 29 March 1984, that "American diplomats pronounce themselves satisfied with Iraq and the U.S., and suggest that normal diplomatic ties have been established in all but name."

Answer 1

Yes it does. I'm not Republican because I know how it's not left/right, it's right or wrong. Why not stick with the Constitution (you know, that thing GWB says is a Goddamn piece of paper) and follow what our founders laid down before us. It shouldn't be we follow this or that, it should be what the Constitution grants us. That's why I'm voting for the man himself: RON PAUL.

Answer 2

If you idiots who say you are too calloused towards Iran to view the facts, are you also too calloused against our young men and women doomed to the same fate as those in Iraq? Another few thousand dead Americans to a lost cause? North Korea has been saber rattling for Bushie's entire term, we KNOW they have Nukes yet we are not there, why? Because all they have there is a starving communist population, no oil, that's why. Those of you with young children, some of the kids going to Iraq now were 13, 14 and 15 on 9/11.

Answer 3

Of course it doesn't bother Republicans!



As I've been told a million times "We HAD to support Saddam because he was fighting Iran!"



Oh yeah? Then why were we giving the Iranians arms as well? And how about that cake in the shape of a bible? Wasn't that Oliver North's idea?



Sadly, it doesn't bother many liberals either, who seem resigned to enable the Republicans in their imperial designs.



The US has a pretty sad history of supporting despots, dictators, military juntas, etc. whenever it suits our purposes - even Carter and Clinton supported some pretty heinous governments.



That's why no one takes seriously our rhetoric about freedom and democracy. Until our nation's foreign policy has, as its cornerstone, the spread of human rights and secular democracy, we'll continue to see the same sort of horrors visited upon us and innocent people the world over.

Answer 4

Does it bother you that Franklin Roosevelt met with Stalin--in IRAN? Are you stunned to find out that Bill Clinton was friends with Yassir Arafat? Are you livid over the fact that Madeleine Albright met with Kim Jong Il? Does it make you just want to die to learn that John Kennedy spent several days with Nikita Kruschev?

Those Democrats keep the most bizzare friends!

Answer 5

Why don't we just sing Bomb Iran to the tune of Barbara Ann? That will lift everyone's spirits!! Everyone loves it when Republicans make jokes. Shows they still have an ounce of humanity left in them.

Answer 6

Learn some history, no it does not bother republicans. Saddam did not become an enemy of the US until he invaded Kuwait and went on his anti-Iseral talks. At the time of that photo Saddam was an alley of the US and the war on communism, we used his forces with our arms to fight Russia so we didn't have to-seems perrty smart to me, if we had know then that he would turn on us one day-we wouldn't have helped. Every heard the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Answer 7

Are you that upset over them shaking hands 20 years ago?



The United Nations also gave him the Nobel Peace Prize for raising education in Iraq, but you failed to mention that.



As a typical liberal, you only choose to blame the US.

Answer 8

The use of tabun (etc.) wasn't known to anyone but the perps and their victims at that time. In fact, they did a great job keeping things quite for a long time owing to the remoteness of the targeted villages.



Why not ask how that half-wit Clinton feels about having bombed a baby-formula factory in Khartoum?

Answer 9

the few cons that actually care are now using info like this to distance themselves from the bush administration.

Answer 10

Gee, who'd have know back in 1983 that Saddam would have turned out to be such a murderous dictator? I'm not sure what your point is with this photo, it's not like it was taken in 2003.

Answer 11

Rumsfeld is Scum!!

Our government is scum lately.

And I am republican but I support Ron Paul.

Answer 12

They're all on the same freaking team, democrats, republicans, Saddam Hussein, Osama, Bill Clinton, Bush Jr. and Sr....when will people wake up and see the TRUTH?

Answer 13

I'm not a republican, so I can't really answer, but I think you may have presented a false dichotomy with your question.

Answer 14

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Rummy is/was a mistake pal, we ALL know it.

Answer 15

Gemini, they either never saw that image, or they have it all worked out in their heads that it's either a fabrication of the media, or, worse, that it doesn't matter...

Answer 16

He's dead now, so why do you care? I thought you libs wanted us to be friends with all the dictators? You whine when we invade, and you whine when we negotiate.

Answer 17

I'm too "calloused" towards Iran to even look at the link.



I'll admit it. There is not one smidgen of love in my heart for Ahmadinejad. I find him to be a devil in devil's clothing. And if his people can't take him out, then they are in his boat.

Answer 18

I am too calloused to care about Iran anymore.