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Originally Posted by W*GS

I didn't say that the US took part. I did say that the US didn't mind, and actively helped, Saddam use chemical weapons against his enemies. You have to concede reality, you know.

You accused me of "justifying genocide." Suffice it to say, the context of which is supporting US policy in the Middle East, specifically to the topic at hand which is Iraq.

Again, why howl about Islamists being killed off, either by a gun, a bomb or a gas bomb? I've seen such nonsensical moral contortions by the Left before, perhaps you can woo us and be the first to justify such a thing. You can also do us a favor and not mention gassing invading soldiers and civilian cities in the same breath, as if they're joined at the hip. That's discussing the issue in bad faith.

How so? Explain.

Is it the world's problem like North Korea is? Like Rwanda was? That one everyone ignored.

I've already explained this on another thread, as you are fully aware. Refer to the discussion elsewhere on US foreign policy. Refer also to my posts on this thread (from YOUR sources) which quote US officials explaining the reasoning behind support for Iraq against Iran. That is well more than enough. Since you refuse (again) to explain why these policies are wrong with little more than pseudo-moralistic huffing and puffing and more torrents of ad hominem abusive, we'll assume that you are (again) debating the subject in bad faith.

I hold my government and fellow citizens to an extremely high standard.

You hold them to a different and higher standard than others, specifically one in which what you call a "human right" in another country is "evil" when we do it. Typical of the Left, I will add. Self-loather, much? Yes, I think much.

No. You're projecting your own failings - using your own standards for "morality", 9/11 was completely acceptable.

I would suspect you consider 9/11 "blowback," knowing the ideological bent of your political corner. Those imperialist pigs were asking for it, etc.

I don't suffer from double-standard moral failings. You, however, do, as I have pointed out in great length for all to see. You're aren't alone as the single greatest moral failing of the Left in the United States is the exact same type of double-standards that you subscribe to; one that dictates that it's within the "rights" of a foreign country to elect a homicidal maniac as its ruler and to invade and butcher at will, but also one that dictates that when WE elect someone who invades somewhere, it's necessarily evil imperialism regardless of the reasons and considerations involved. You don't even bother trying to defend it, because after all, it's wholly indefensible. That is liberalism, and that is garbage. 100%.