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Originally Posted by Bharat Nain
I second that. There are several other political forums out there, you might have more fun debating about such topics over there.
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Let it go. It's chit-chat. If we can talk about unimportant stuff like Foreign Music, iPods, Facebook.com, modding XBOX cases, The Sims, and all sorts of other threads in Chit-Chat, then we should be able to talk politics without people telling us “this isn’t the place to be talking about it.” Politics actually has an impact on our lives and how we’re going to be living for the rest of our lives.
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Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky
As for the Osirak reactor, I'm sure all of us are thankful that a nation that has used chemical weapons in war (and on its own people) did not have the oppurtunity to create nuclear weapons.
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[Not to imply that you didn’t already know this, but I’ll post in case people who didn’t were reading this thread.]
Chemical weapons that the United States Government sold to Iraq in the 1980's in the hopes they'd use them against our mutual enemy Iran. We knew Saddam was a nut back then, and we still decided that the enemy of our enemy was our friend, like the CIA trained Osama bin Laden, and how we propped up Noriega in Panama, before we illegally went in there and pulled him out.
Let’s keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iraq by force (our recent invasion), but allow North Korea and Pakistan to develop and mass-produce nuclear weapons of their own without a fight. Pakistan is extremely unstable, and North Korea is a possible threat, each much more of a scary situation than Iraq since the end of the gulf war. Not to mention we haven’t found hide nor hare in terms of nuclear weapons in Iraq over the past year and a half.