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Originally Posted by Bodyhammer86
We supported him because he was fighting Iran at the time (a US enemy) and that was well before the Gulf war and his campaign of genocide against the Kurds. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It's every country's policy, get over it. Furthermore, what the hell were we supposed to do? Whip out our magical crystal ball and see that in ten years time, Saddam would become a total jerkwad? Sorry, but things don't work like that.
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No crystal ball was needed considering that Saddam was already a "jerkwad." Look, we can ignore American history and pretend that the US has always done the right thing with dictators or we can acknowledge that our government has a history of openly supporting butchers whenever it suits our political goals. You can't be all for political realism one moment (enemies enemy and all that) and then switch to the global good guy role. It just isn't honest. This was the point of my original post.