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Originally Posted by HOZ
For someone who complains about lack of knowledge about American Foreign policy in Iraq you sure miss a whole gaping whck of it. A full 12 years! As well you input the Soviet-Afghan war there too. So much for a timeline or placing what happened into context.
We start here...
Saddam didn't become a dictator after 1989-90: he was a dictator well before that, his so-called 'rape rooms' existed before that, etc...
Then you jump a full 12 years...
This has been a US led, US directed, and US invented proposition from the get go...The Project for the New American Century has proven to be as worthless as the paper its written on..
What happened to the years inbetween those? Don't they count too? Or should we ignore those?
As for your European comment....since they didn't join the Iraq invasion they get off scottfree for doing what the Americans did?
You ignored my questions. The American stopped supporting Saddam. Wasn't that the right thing to do? Wasn't that a good thing to do?
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No, it was the right thing to do - its not like they had a choice...saddam invaded Kuwait!
with respect to the invasion, it was clearly wrong - they took their eye off the ball in Afghanistan, before things had truly settled down...as a result, the Taliban and the warlords have had the chance to regroup and are now a threat...just wait until the generation of Iraqis who have suffered become young men - esp. since the talk now is that they need a "strong man" as the next Iraqi PM...
Look, no one denies Saddam was a dictator. But the US helped him to become that - the 12 intervening years of what? becoming
more of a dictator? Saddam was at the height of his power and influence just prior to invading Kuwait - in no small part to US support...
People seem to believe that guys like Saddam and OBL appear out of the ether: they don't. They are created. And when their masters lose control of them, they act incredulous, like, 'oh we had no idea he was such a bad guy'. That is patently false and is the problem with not looking at history for lessons.
And why should the euros be blamed for Saddam? In your arguments, you don't even place blame on the US, who were the primary supporters of Saddam. You can't have it both ways.