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Sure it matters. The American's knew that Saddam was going to be a large part of the strategy to contain Iran. They also knew that Iran also had a massive stock of chemical weapons and biological weapons.
I'm pretty sure that the American's going back to the 70's didn't encouraged Saddam to gas the Kurds. What the American's should have done is different and up for debate.
But to me its equivalent to giving a cop a gun, you issue it for him to use in his everyday work. You don't calculate that he's going to gun down 50 innocent people at McDonalds with it.
At the point in time that Saddam first took power, outside of Israel, Iraq was really the only somewhat friendly regime in that region, and the only somewhat friendly regime with a military that could tie up and bleed Iran.
I think we're also forgetting that the Chinese and to an extent other eastern nations provided Saddam with WMD's or the technology to create WMD's.
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Woah there hotshot.... you are violating the basic premise here.
Now repeat after me.
1. the US is the primary force for evil in the world
2. Any evil done in the world not done directly by the US was either paid for or supported by them
3. If they did not either do directly, pay for or support ie Stalin, Mao, etc they are equally complicit as they did nothing to encourage its end.
4. Any actions they did take in the cause of stopping oppression that caused any injury up to and including hurt feelings make the entire program evil and wrong as well.
Once you observe these simple rules every thing will become clear.