a little something worth noting . . .

. . . comes from mark steyn:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn13.html

The left are not great detail guys. Here's how the fall of Saddam was 
marked by Robert Fisk, The Independent of London's widely respected 
foreign correspondent (by ''widely respected'' I mean, of course, 
that he gets pretty much everything wrong): The Americans, he writes, 
''did their best--in the late Seventies and early Eighties--to arm 
him and service his economy and offer him political support, to turn 
him into the very dictator he became.'' Really? According to the 
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, between 1973 and 
2002 Russia supplied 57 percent of Iraq's arms, France 13 percent, 
China 12 percent, Brazil 2 percent . . . Brazil? Hang on, where's 
Washington? Where's London? Well, it turns out Brazil supplied more 
arms to Iraq than America and Britain combined. London and Washington 
between them account for less than 2 percent of the Iraqi 
dictatorship's weapons; the parties that met on Friday account for 
three-quarters.
-- 
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