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[quote]Originally posted by Askan Nightbringer:

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
[qb]The USA had a hand in the making of Saddam, just like France (which you like to target) and other countries. If your going to rave about how the French gave him this, and the French gave him that then you have to acknowledge the US's part in making of the Frankenstein.

Askan

Well, sure, what's to argue? After the USSR cut off aid to Iraq, we had to support Saddam in order to satisfy our regional Arab allies (Saudi, Kuwait, et al) who saw Iraq as a bulwark against the fundamentalist Muslim regime in Iran (just a bunch of imperialistic Persians, as far as the Arabs were concerned). Saddam was a tyrant with germs and chems, but he was on our side...sort of. Then he made nice with the Iranians and went shopping in Kuwait and everyone agreed that it was sad that he was now a Bad tyrant. But, I suspect that the reticence of our regional Arab allies in the current situation is still due to fear of the Persian Iranians and the hopes that Iraq could be maintained as a buffer. That hope is dust and it will be interesting to see how we handle the Iranian-Arab tensions that will surface after this is over.