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I dont know what this fascination with score keeping is.
We did not invade as many countries as the Soviet Union. But if we did, does that make us worse than the Soviets? This was the claim back in the 1980s, btw. The Soviets were bad only because we liked to invade places.
Now I see this same stupid ass argument crop up among the brain dead, Muslims hate us because of blow back. If it weren't for US policy there would be peace and freedom all over the world.
The opposite is the case.
There is no comparison there.
Iran has not invaded ANY countries.
In fact, we invaded them by proxy. Reagan gave Saddam Hussein the go ahead, and then the US provided the weapons, including chemical weapons, to do the job.
Now, I'm not going to argue that the government of Iran is not a terrible, oppressive regime, but as far as threats to other nations go, they simply do not have a history of invasion.
Hitler did, obviously. So did the USSR. And so did we.
The fact that we did it in the name of a "noble cause" is not the question. Surely they believe their cause to be "noble" as well. We did it. They did not. Those are the facts.
The argument here is that a Nucliear Armed Iraq might be a threat to the nation of Israel. Well, that might be true. But our massive nuclear stockpile, combined with the USSR's Nuclear stockpile, was literally a threat to the entire world, should war with Russia have ever happened. And it came mighty close, quite a few times.
Besides, Iran must know that if it used Nuclear weapons against Iraq, we'd turn their entire nation into a sheet of glass within 24 hours.