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Originally posted by Rudey
You've posted US aid to Saddam several times except you don't post it in the context of reality - a reality in which other countries armed Saddam heavily and much much more as the US backed away (arms like the Osirak nuclear reactor which Israel was forced to destroy). But hey let's stop talking about what this was in context of, let's make no mention of countries like France, and let's just attack the US because that is our goal here.
And, yes, there was a reason why all those countries supported Iraq then.
-Rudey
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I didn't mention anyting about "aid" the that US gave to Iraq in this article. What i mentioned was that Donald Rumsfeld was in Iraq meeting with with high ranking government officials, while at the same time chemical weapons were being used in a genocidal fashion, but then he had no moral issue with it. Only after Kuwait was invaded, and oil supply was in question was there any moral opposistion to Saddam (to the point where the US suported Saddam up to 2 weeks prior to the invasion, which was 1990, 2 years after chemical weapons had been used to exterminate the Kurds.
I understand that there are Geopolitical reasons for the war, and don't get me wrong i am gald that there is one less madman in a posistion to hurt people. But using Morality to justify the invasion is wrong. Morality had nothing to do with it. Morality has never had anything to do with it.