Comments by "sandgrownun66" (@sandgrownun66) on "The Guardian" channel.

  1. "respecting your ancestors." Does that include the ancestors that had slaves?
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  2.  @user-bq5bu2yi8c  Yeh, and just look at the mess it created.
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  3.  @user-bq5bu2yi8c  "it is down to us to take out dictators that violate international law." If so, why did the USA help Saddam Hussein into power and assist in keeping him there? To quote The Global Policy Forum: "US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. Evidence suggests that Saddam was on the CIA payroll as early as 1959, when he participated in a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi strongman Abd al-Karim Qassem. In the 1980s, the US backed Saddam in the war against Iran, giving Iraq arms, money, satellite intelligence, and even chemical & bio-weapon precursors. As many as 90 US military advisors supported Iraqi forces and helped pick targets for Iraqi air and missile attacks."
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  4.  @user-bq5bu2yi8c  So it was nothing to do with the neo-con agenda, or the desire for cheap oil?
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  5.  @kailio11  Yes, but some wars are worth fighting and some aren't.
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  6.  @watchgoose  Yes, but some wars are worth fighting and some aren't.
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  7. +BlackTar EFPs have been used in improvised explosive devices against armoured cars, for example [ in the 1989 assassination of the German banker Alfred Herrhausen (attributed to the Red Army Faction), and by Hezbollah in the 1990s. A recent development is their widespread use in IEDs by insurgents in Iraq and Afghahnistan against coalition vehicles.
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  8.  @walsjell  Yes, you need to see war from both sides.
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  9.  @Dr.Pepper001  Yes, if the war is worth fighting and dying for.
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