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Originally posted by Djinn Raffo:
Saddam Hussein is evil..but:
Who bankrolled, equipped, and trained the Iraqis in an attempt to destabilize post-Revolutionary Iran during Iran-Iraq's war where Saddam used chemical weapons and all that and was more or less responsible for 1.5 million deaths?
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Well I think you get the prize for oversimplification of a VERY complex issue. Even if it was as simple as the US supporting Iraq to get at Iran, the US didn't have ANYTHING to do with the Iran/Iraq war. You must be one of the gang that thinks it's ok to blame car makers when someone drinks and drives and kills someone eh? No need for personal or national responsibility these days... because we can always blame someone else.
The cold war was still in full swing in those days, there were a myriad of other issues in play... and Iran was our ENEMY. Perhaps we should have simply allowed Iran to run roughshod over the whole of the Middle East... that certainly would have resulted in fewer casualties... RIGHT? Perhaps we should have let the Soviets do whatever they wanted in the region and stayed out of it... that would have save MANY lives... RIGHT?
You're making a broad generalization and using a fraction of the supporting data to justify it, barely scratching the surface of the issues that affected actions and reactions during those events.
[ 09-12-2002, 02:50 PM: Message edited by: Thoran ]