Was thinking today about how the US armed Sadaam with chemical and biological weapons throughout the 80s. He we helped him kill a million Iranians and gas his own people. How we blocked the UN from condemning him for using chemical weapons.
This was bi-partisan support. And nobody seems to care. The deathtoll from that support by some estimates, including the Iranians, is 2 million.
Do we not count the dead we cause? Do we not owe Iraq reparations?
How long will we support the brutal Saudis, Bahrain, Qatar, etc, a bunch of medieval dictatorships.
Cant we at least say sorry?
What good does it do to say anything when one of your paid tyrants goes rogue ?!
Saddam was a good counterweight to Iran.
That counterweight is now missed very much there.
Iran is still insane and out of control.
What Histwhorians Are Paid Not to Tell You
While setting back the world-threatening Iranian jihad twenty years, Saddam overproduced on oil beyond his OPEC quotas, driving down world oil prices. Low oil prices were the main reason for Reagan's economic boom.
The only reason Bush, Sr., attacked Saddam was to get the oil prices back up, producing obscene profits for his petrocratic aristocracy. Kuwait had no right to exist; it was a corrupt and cowardly parasite country that had belonged to the rulers of Mesopotamia for 5,000 years. After World War I, it was clipped off where it always belonged, like some bondholder's coupon.