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Originally Posted by Johnderondon";p="
Are you equally vehement in your opposition for US support to non-democratic states? `Cos otherwise you could come across a mite hypocritical.
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The US dealt with unsavory dictators as part of the greater issue of taking on the soviet union, practically alone, during the cold war, while euros sat on the sideling eating their croissant and sucking their demitasse. As Harry Truman famously said of one such dictator - "He's a s.o.b. - but he's OUR s.o.b." This context, along with why the US dealt with saddam in the eighties, is uniformly ignored by anti-american types. This is to be completely distinguished from euroweenies, who never saw a dictator they didn't like when it comes to pulling in hard currency for everything from small arms up to chirac's nuke factory for the iraqis.