Harold Pinter acknowledgement speech

[kandrathe]

"I read it as the matter of the true versus the false, his opening gambit, and his disgust, long held, at the immense smokescreen and shell game played by one particular government, which he foolishly depicts as the work of one man."

What one man is responsible for both Nicaragua and Iraq?

-Jester
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Reagan? Whose administrations policies encouraged the building up of Iraq to stand against Iran, and we know about the Contra support. Of course that negates any responsibility of other nation players in the global politics of that day, of which there were many who contributed to the problems we face now.

In hindsight, it was really stupid to befriend a madman like Saddam.

Say things had been handled differently such that the Iraq/Iran war was never started, and that Iraq was never supplied with the 1980's materials which we ended up later destroying. Our political standing with Iran and Iraq might be better today, Saddam may or may not have held onto power, but certainly more Iraqi's (esp. Kurds and Shia's), Iranians, and Kuwaiti's would be alive. There would have been no invasion of Kuwait, or need for Gulf War One and Two, and alot of the anger which bred this generations Osama Bin Laden's would never had existed.