Blade_Runner wrote:
Yeah, they were enemies of America and always have been.
Saddam Hussein was no different than any other tyrant on the earth.
In January, 1978, the Islamic Regime of Iran was established.
in July, 1979, Saddam Hussein became the leader of Iraq.
In September, 1980, Saddam's army invaded Iran, starting an 8 year war that took over a million lives.
In August, 1990, Saddam's army invaded Kuwait.
During his reign, Saddam murdered over 600,000 of his own people; he deployed chemical weapons to kill Iraqi Kurds. He paid $25,000 rewards to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. His two sons were butchers.
And you think Saddam was no threat to world peace???? The brutal bastard got what he deserved.
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Runnie wrote:
Saddam Hussein was no different than any other tyrant on the earth
We have tolerated, even installed tyrants (Pinochet=1973-1990, Videla=1776-1981, The Shah of Iran=1953-1978, Ayatollah Khomeini was on the CIA payroll in the 1970s in Paris, Saud family, and many others), so what "threat" was Saddam if he "was no different than any other tyrant on earth", other than to the petrodollar?
runnie wrote:
In January, 1978, the Islamic Regime of Iran was established.
The US instigated a coup in Iran and installed its puppet, the Shah of Iran, in 1953 til 1978 until the Iranians got tired of US exploitation of its resources.
runnie wrote:
In September, 1980, Saddam's army invaded Iran, starting an 8 year war that took over a million lives.
The US secretly support Saddam and Iraq in that little diddy.
"The American decision to lend crucial help to Baghdad so early in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war came after American intelligence agencies warned that Iraq was on the verge of being overrun by Iran, whose army was bolstered the year before by covert shipments of American-made weapons."
Did you get that Irans army was bolstered by covert shipments of US-made weapons ?
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/world/us-secretly-gave-aid-to-iraq-early-in-its-war-against-iran.htmlsmelly wrote:
In August, 1990, Saddam's army invaded Kuwait.
So what?
"Most countries condemned Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. But the truth — that it was the culmination of a series of tangled economic and historical conflicts between two Arab oil states — wasn’t likely to sell the US public on the idea of sending our troops halfway around the world to do something about it.
So we were given a variation of the “domino theory.” Saddam Hussein, we were told, had designs on the entire Middle East. If he wasn’t halted in Kuwait, his troops would just keep going into other countries."
http://billmoyers.com/2014/06/27/the-first-iraq-war-was-also-sold-to-the-public-based-on-a-pack-of-lies/http://www.apfn.org/Saddam-Hussein/Kuwait.htmsmelly and runnie wrote:
During his reign, Saddam murdered over 600,000 of his own people; he deployed chemical weapons to kill Iraqi Kurds. He paid $25,000 rewards to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. His two sons were butchers.
So what? the US has support many murderous dictators worse than Saddam. He just stepped on the wrong toes connected to the ass he should have been kissing.
NO, he was not a threat to the US or world peace!