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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
More people are being killed in Iran now than Hussein killed. It's just not him doing the killing.
The U.S. was quite happy with Hussein from 1979 to 1991.
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What is going on in Iran now? Chemical agents being dispersed?
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Oh yeah, that was very bad. Saddam was wrong to do that. Here's a question, have we invaded Pakistan, Palestine, Lebanon, or Syria, where the suicide bombers get most of their weapons and funding? Saddam only paid out a few times, really.
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It's was the Saudis that really did it in bad taste with the telethons. But they stood fast as a member of OPEC not threatening to switch to the euro, so they seemed to be overlooked about a great many things.
Although, I am not entirely clear on this, I believe that Saddams action of switching from the dollar standard over to the euro was another contributing factor.