Sohail revs up the propaganda machine once more!

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Apr 7, 2007 at 03:35

Unfortunately for you, Sohail, there are people like me who revel in shooting down your pathetic propaganda attempts. How life must suck for you, knowing there are people like me who refuse to back down.

Sohail, you are engaging in typical anti-American propaganda. Do you ever stop to think for yourself? Wait, scratch that. You're not allowed to. I forgot about your religious restrictions against free thought.

As is typical, the blame is being wrongly placed.

First of all, yes, the UN and the US placed sanctions on Saddam's Iraq. And who sided with America and the UN on sanctions during the first Iraq war? Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco, Oman, Syria, Turkey, UAE, Qatar, Egypt. All MUSLIM COUNTRIES!

So for a Muslim to blame America is ridiculous.

Second, you neglect to address the fact that, as is usually the case with sanctions on countries run by tyrants, the suffering of the general public occurred because the dictator was diverting relief funds and using all the country's wealth to protect himself, to splurge on extravagant luxuries, and to hoard the money while he watched his country starve. Saddam caused the suffering, not the sanctions. He purposely did so in order to use it as propaganda against the USA. This is how tyrants work. They make their subjects suffer in order to gain their own goals.

Tough luck, Sohail. You stumbled into a forum where people refuse to roll over and accept your lies and propaganda, and where those of us who aren't afraid to speak the truth do so. Propaganda and lies burn up in the light of reality. Always remember that.

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