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08-20-2008, 01:29 AM #13Senior Member
McCain: In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations
Originally Posted by psychocat
The UN is even more flawed than the US government in the way it is setup.
Even if you allow for the fantasy that the INVASION of Iraq was a continuation of the gulf war that still does not explain Afghanistan.
The situation in Georgia was started by Georgia and the west is guilty of the worst double standards , anyone remember the reason for the first invasion of the gulf state Iraq ?
That's right , Iraq attempted to reclaim something (Kuwait) that once belonged to thier country and the west attacked with maximum prejudice.
When the ceasefire with Iran was signed in August 1988, Iraq was virtually bankrupt and heavily indebted to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Those two nations had funded Iraq due to shared antagonism towards the Iranian regime. Iraq's economy was further damaged when the following year, in open defiance of OPEC quotas, Kuwait increased its oil production by 40 percent. The collapse in oil prices had a catastrophic impact on the Iraqi economy. The Iraqi government described it as a form of economic warfare, which it claimed was aggravated by Kuwait slant-drilling across the border into Iraq's Rumaila oil field. [13]
Kuwait had been part of the Ottoman province of Basra, and although its ruling dynasty, the al-Sabah family, had concluded a protectorate agreement in 1899 that assigned responsibility for its foreign affairs to Britain, it did not make any attempt to secede from the Ottoman Empire. For this reason, Iraqi governments had always refused to accept Kuwait's separation, and its borders were never clearly defined or mutually agreed.[citation needed] The British High Commissioner drew lines that deliberately constricted Iraq's access to the ocean so that any future Iraqi government would be in no position to threaten Britain's domination of the Persian Gulf.
Don't paint Iraq to be so innocent. It's not like Kuwait recently succeeded from Iraq or what not; it had been nearly a century. Georgia and Ossetia have only recently split in the last 15 years or so. During which tensions have been on the rise and a pseudo idle war/cold war has taken place. It's not like they just forgot about each other.
Now that Russia is attempting to deter Georgia from "reclaiming" Ossetia the west is saying "don't do as we do , do as we say"!
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