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#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-01-29 03:41 PM
Life could start to improve for the people of Iran.

Life will immediately improve for the people of Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Middle East and the entire world.

There are only a few pieces of Axis of Evil left that actively sponsor terror and tyranny and stand in a way of potentially mostly peaceful international existence, after the fall of Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein - imperial Russia and Iranian theocracy.

If we, with the help of allies, dismantle these two regimes (democratic Iran can be quite an asset in the Middle East) the rest will be a lot easier, if we keep on guard.

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
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So don't be surprised if Jewish shipping is attacked in the Gulf and we all end up paying even higher prices.

"Jewish shipping"? Iran has been using drones and missiles to attack Israel's ships, cargo and tankers for years, not to mention supplying Hezbollah, Hamas, Badr, Islamic Jihad, Saraya etc. with rockets, explosives and intelligence.

Israel - the only democratic country in the Middle East - and the U.S. have been extremely patient with the crap Iran has been piling up exporting its "Islamic revolution" over the world. If it has not been for Israel, Iran would have nuclear weapons long time ago.

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#6 Did anyone bomb the US when they invaded Iraq?

Nobody (yet) bombed Russia for illegally invading and committing atrocities in Ukraine, they are busy killing the "meat waves" your fuhrer Putin keeps throwing at them.

Your script has been trying to bring Iraq as some sort of equivalence to illegal and unprovoked war against Ukraine, which is non-sequitur.

But just a little history:

1. Ukraine - the country whose borders Russia agreed to respect and protect as per 1994 Budapest Memorandum:

On December 5, 1994 the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, UK, and the United States signed a memorandum to provide Ukraine with security assurances in connection with its accession to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state: "1. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine."

2. The corrupt UN's Oil-For-Food-Programme (OFF) allowed Saddam, his henchmen and various crooks within the UN and around the program, like Benon Sevan, Nadhmi Auchi, to skim of billions of USD from the program that was supposed to provide food to Iraqi people. The evidence uncovered after Iraq was taken under Coalition's control showed that "less than 2/3 of $60B went to food aid" and "much of the food aid supplied... was unfit for human consumption." Various entities involved in the corrupt program included French TotalFina/Total oil company, many Russian firms and individuals, even Russian Orthodox Church were on al Mada list of illegal oil trading.

Top 3 violators that paid kickbacks to UNOFF to receive Iraq's oil were Russia (30%), France (15%), and China (10%) - all were strongly against Iraq war.

3. Iraq's nuclear program was interrupted by the 1991 Gulf War as it was on the verge of a breakthrough. In 2003 Iraq was under UN, US and IAEA sanctions and was violating and not cooperating with at least 17 UN resolutions and kept refusing inspections, while sending caravans of trucks to Syria. Of course, UN doesn't really have an army, outside of some "peacekeeping" forces, and Saddam at the time had the world's fifth largest army and was boasting about "Mother of all wars" if sanctions and inspections were enforced. Somebody had to do what UN wasn't able to do, hence Coalition of the Willing, including some NATO and non-NATO countries took care of the tyrant who has in the past was developing NBC WMDs (including Osirak nuclear reactor that was destroyed by Israel in 1981 - Operation Opera/Operation Babylon) and who had used chemical weapons against Iran as well as his own people. Saddam has been warned multiple times about consequences of non-cooperation with UN, yet chose war instead of allowing inspectors in.

4. A number of MiG-31s as well as other Russian arms and equipment have been found in Iraq's desert in underground/under-sand warehouses.

5. On December 19 2003 - 6 days after Saddam was pulled out of the "spider hole" - Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi asked the US and UK to dismantle his WMD nuclear program and oversee the destruction of his chemical weapons stockpile.

6. Jan 15, 2023 - Iraqi PM Mohammed al-Sudani calls for U.S. troops staying in Iraq and supports indefinite presence of U.S. troops in his country.
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Saddam Hussein was desperate to play ball with us

He had a very funny way of showing it. He played badly, and far too long...

He didn't want to lose his palaces and his Doritos. Who would?

He chose badly - no palaces, no Doritos, no life. Poor Saddam.

People of Iraq, Middle East and the world are much better off, though.
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#25 | Posted by CutiePie at 2023-01-31 02:20 AM
5. On December 19 2003 - 6 days after Saddam was pulled out of the "spider hole" - Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi asked the US and UK to dismantle his WMD nuclear program and oversee the destruction of his chemical weapons stockpile.

Despite its formal 1975 commitment to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Gaddafi made unsuccessful attempts to build or to purchase a nuclear weapon from nuclear-armed nations. In the 1970s " 1980s Gaddafi made numerous attempts to accelerate and push forward his ambitions for an active nuclear weapons program, using the nuclear black market sources. However, after the end of the Cold War in 1991, Gaddafi sought to resolve its nuclear crises with the United States aiming to uplift the sanctions against Libya.


* * * Following the U.S. military response in the War in Afghanistan, Gaddafi increasingly sought to normalize relations with the United States, initially focusing on the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Libya.


The event which ultimately caused Gaddafi to give up his WMDs and nuclear weapons program was a 2001 message from U.S. President George W. Bush which told Gaddafi that "either you get rid of your weapons of mass destruction or the US will destroy them and destroy everything with no discussion." Libyan officials began to meet covertly with British, Russian, and U.S. officials to officially dismantle the program. In March 2003, days before the invasion of Iraq, Gaddafi's personal envoys contacted U.S. President George W. Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair about Libya's willingness to dismantle its nuclear program.


In October 2003, U.S. intelligence agencies raided a cargo ship and seized a consignment of centrifuge-related equipment bound for Libya in a northern Mediterranean port. The U.S. investigations revealed that many of these components were manufactured by a Scomi Precision Engineering facility in Malaysia and were produced under the technical guidance of Dr. A.Q. Khan and various nationals from the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland.


Gaddafi then provided British, Russian, and U.S. ts with details on Libya's NBC activities. Libya allowed Russian, U.S., and British officials to visit 10 previously secret sites and dozens of Libyan laboratories and military factories.


On 19 December 2003 - 6 days after Saddam was pulled out of the "spider hole" - Gaddafi made a "surprise" announcement of his intention to dismantle Libya's WMD programs.


As of 2013, over 800 tons of chemical weapons ingredients remained to be destroyed. In February 2014, the new Libyan government announced that it had finished destroying Libya's entire remaining Gaddafi-era stockpile of chemical weapons.

But who needs facts when you have the alternative reality of false narrative and feelings, brought to you by: Tokyo Rose, Lord Hee-Haw, Axis Sally, Effeteposer, wolfdog - Dubya is/was "stupid and venial," he and NATO are bad, evil, no good; Iraq was "Sovereign" and there was "no legitimate reason" to invade and get rid of Saddam who was an "ally" and "millions of people died" and it was a "precedent" that "lead directly to current war" (against Ukraine) which is all about Putin's hurt feelings and "self-defense" from evil NATO "expansionism" and Ukrainian "ZioNazis" / "Hebrew Nazis" / "Jooes" / "members of Israel" etc.

Perfect! Feed that script into ChatGPT and you get Russian/Putin's/Prigozhin's IRA troll farm plow-workers Effeteposer and Wolfdog.

Si vis pacem para bellum
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Jan 15, 2023 " Iraqi PM Mohammed al-Sudani calls for U.S. troops staying in Iraq and supports indefinite presence of U.S. troops in his country.

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Jan 31, 2023 - US military seeks to expand access to bases in Philippines
The increased access to military bases in the Philippines would give US armed forces a strategic footing on the southeastern edge of the South China Sea just 200 miles south of Taiwan.

The Philippines used to be home to two of the US military's largest overseas installations, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base, which were transferred to Philippine control in the 1990s. A mutual defense treaty signed in 1951 remains in force, making it the oldest bilateral treaty alliance in the region for the United States. The two countries built on the relationship with the 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement and the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.

Relations between the two countries were strained under Duterte, who threatened to cancel the Visiting Forces Agreement, which would have made it far more difficult for US forces to access the Philippines. Duterte relented and restored the agreement in July 2021. President Ferdinand "Bong Bong" Marcos Jr. has sought an improvement in the relationship with the US.
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