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Originally Posted by DJ Happy
As said by someone else in Politics, while Saddam was committing his mass murders and acts of genocide, the US did nothing. It took someone to threaten their oil supplies before they acted. If he'd just stuck to gassing Kurds he would've been fine.
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Considering how little of our oil comes from Iraq/Kuwait, this is a spurious argument and always has been.
What is sad is that we had to jump through all these hoops in order to do something. It took someone as bad as Hussein and STILL countries like France, Germany and Russia protected him (of course, we know why now...billions of dollars in bribes and oil contracts).
We certainly can't get a UN mandate or support to do something about the mass genocide that goes on in Africa
daily. Or when we do, we are looked at as "Imperialists".