>Hilmar,
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>Talking about "mistakes", please let me point you to
http://www.portoalegre2003.org/publique/cgi/public/cgilua.exe/web/templates/htm/1P1OO/view_z1p_1OO.htm?editionsectionid=140&infoid=5015&user=reader (
"Criador contra criatura").
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>The text in english can be found in
"Shaking hands with the butcher" (
http://www.portoalegre2003.org/publique/cgi/public/cgilua.exe/web/templates/htm/1P1OO/view.htm?infoid=4991&editionsectionid=97&user=reader).
>
>Another interesting "mistake" is
"Flashback to 1989 " (
http://www.portoalegre2003.org/publique/cgi/public/cgilua.exe/web/templates/htm/1P1OO/view.htm?infoid=4987&editionsectionid=97&user=reader).
>
>Seems we're facing a war of "mistakes".
In summary, the U.S. basically strengthened Iraq, although they knew what was going on inside Iraq.
This fits nicely into the "big picture", of the U.S. always watching out for their interests (or what they think is their interest), above all other considerations. I must think about the "Plan Cóndor" or "Operación Cóndor", of which you, as a Brazilian, have surely heard.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)