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Originally Posted by WillyPete
Also, Saddam maybe wrong, but he's been telling his people that the US is the enemy for decades.
20 year olds have grown up, possibly under the threat of the secret police if they didn't agree with Saddam, but regardless of what Saddam did, to them he spoke the truth about the Americans and the English.
Even now he's gone, the seeds of what he's sown have a very fertile field to grow in.
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I do not read many posts that persuade me that the author knows the subject.
Folks, if Saddam was a "murderous psychopath", who "gassed his own people",
and thus the U.S. was justified in an unprovoked invasion of Iraq that has resulted in the overthrow of his government by the force of the U.S. military,
and the deaths of at minimum, 17,000 Iraqi civilians, and in the physical destruction of much of Iraq, what say you of the Reagan and Bush I administrations, who not only supplied Saddam with the chemical and biological weapons stocks and the technical knowhow to make and to use them, but turned a blind eye to Saddam's "gassing his own people", and continued to provide him with military support, intelligence info, and diplomatic relations.
By your own "rules", are Rumsfeld, Bush I, and former members of the Reagan admin. not enablers and conspirators with the "murderous psychopath", Saddam?