stevent12x:
Not sure your point on the picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam. Didn’t FDR shake hands with Stalin? Many times? A man that is responsible for the deaths of tens of millions?
As for the support we gave Saddam in the ’80s, it was pretty minimal (which is why all of his tanks and airplanes were RUSSIAN, and his nuclear power plant and missiles were FRENCH, and most of his chemical weapon precoursers were obtained from GERMANY). The minimal assistance we gave Saddam (mainly in the form of intel on the locations and movement of Iranian troop concentrations) was in the context of a possible Iranian revolutionary victory sweeping across the middle east overturning regimes they hated like the UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and…oh yeah… ISRAEL.
We gave MUCH more support to the USSR during WWII, a regime that killed tens of millions. But this was in the context of WWII. So it made sense, and was necessary at the time.
