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Just like McCarthy - Cairo will go to any length, rewrite any history to prove his extremist position - the world and facts be damned.

Originally posted by Cairo
Wrong again! And the lengths to which you will stoop to enable Saddam are frightening, BTW!!!!

First attack the messenger. OK. He's done that. Then reinvent history.

We said we would leave the Gulf after the war was over??? First of all, the Gulf war isn't over! And second, Saudi Arabia won't let our troops leave, seems they are afraid of being overthrown by bin Laden's terrorist network, and the Royals begged the UN to install US there in the first place!(Learn a little History, dude.) So "your truth" is false, the fact is, Saddam said he surrendered...HE LIED!

If the Gulf war is not over, then what was that surrender as signed. What are all those Iraqi weapons that were destroyed. Where are the onslaught attacks of Iraqi armored columns? I don't even see a guerilla war. Just some foolish anti-aircraft guns firing and getting immediately destroyed. Even the DMZ in Korea remained just as hot long after the Korean war completely ended. Or have you not rewritten the history book on Korea yet?

Saudis only permit a small US force remain to meet conditions of the no-fly-zone and to defend military stores. The US is most definitely not there to defend against bin Laden! Are you obtuse? When did you rewrite history? Bin Laden was not even relevent until over 5 years after the Gulf war - ended.

The Royals said nothing to the UN nor begged anyone to build bases. The Saudis contracted and constructed military bases for decades before the Gulf war in case they required military support. One base that made Israel angry was built in the NW corner - long before Saddam of the UN was involved in the region. You just made that UN base nonsense up, right? Yes. Its 'Cairo fiction'.

In short, one paragraph intended to insult me as being ignorant of history instead cannot be correct due to chronological errors. More 'Cairo fiction'. Cairo invents history as he needs it to justify his extremist ideas. Cairo invents history to justify his hyperbolic politics.

Nothing in his post has credibility. However hermit22 probably says it best. This is quoted because of its accuracy:

It's a good thing you don't run the country. We are not an empire. Get that through your head. We may be economically and militarily superior to every other nation in the world, but that does not give us the right to act that way - especially when it's not in our interests to do so. You don't want to invade a country that has successfully painted us as the bad guy on the world scene (ie. sanctions) and use the "oh, I thought they were going to attack us" line. It doesn't fly in international relations. It a) infuriates the surrounding countries, some of which act scared, others of which become havens for terrorists, and b) tells other countries that it's OK to invade another country for no reason.

Unfortately Cairo is too young to look in a mirror and see McCarthy. Both used same reasoning to justify their extremism. Cairo even promotes this long since denigrated McCarthyism: socialism = communism. This is the guy that's going to teach me history? First get a history education outside of the "Radicals are Us Institute". Fiction is not history. For the long list of your historical errors, start with hermit22's posts. I can't be bothered with how you think history should be written.