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Originally posted by MereMere21
I'll take that bet - I actually was waiting to see cash or rudey's input
this has already been mentioned, but the view of "since you don't believe what I believe, you are stupid and don't have any sense"
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my oh so favorite of the United States - "democracy is for EVERYONE, lets rid the world of dictators as we see fit!" why is that we ousted Saddam after YEARS of his tolatarian (sp?) rule, but we didn't lift a finger when (*his name escapes me at the moment*) whats his name in Africa - Uganda? commited mass genocide against hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of his own people in the late '70s early '80s? thats right, Uganda doesn't have oil.....
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Idi Amin - yep. The political orientation globally was much different back then. Uganda at the time was firmly Soviet-backed. Invading then could have led to a much larger conflict...at least that was the cold war logic of the time. The U.S. was just out of the debacle of Vietnam, and that also played a part where the military was trying to reform itself.
What really roils me is where did Amin end up when he finally (and recently) die? Our so-called "friends" of Saudi Arabia put him up in exile. Grrrrrrr........
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