what it's all about?
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i don't think you meant to say "6 years ago" because that was right after the *last* war with iraq.
but let's assume you meant 15-20 years ago, when we gave him those weapons.
back then, Iraq was our buddy, our allie. they were fighting Iran, which at the big bad evil of the time. the tricky thing, of course is that reagan sold arms to iran so they would hold prisoners of ours and help him get re-elected (thus dubbed the iran-contra scandal).
governments transparent? they are: they lie.
but you're assuming that the buildup over iraq is a new thing. it's not at all, and has been going on for 12 years. you're also assuming that nobody's bothering with north korea, indea, pakistan, or israel. in this case i can only say that you're being led by the leash of the media. what the media reports isn't the whole of what's going on, and if you only pay attention to the headlines, all you're going to think is happening in the world are the headlines. the US is going after north korea the same way they went after iraq initially - economically. india was warned about their nuclear development quite vocally last year when this first hit the news, and pakistan is *at best* a fair weather friend. they were being used for the afghanistan invasion. we knew it, they knew it.