peter11937 wrote:
Then you think Saddam did not invade Kuwait, engage in a genocide against the Marsh Arabs, attempt an ecological disaster by burning the Kuwait oil fields, draining the Marsh Arab's swamp, invade Iran causing up to 500,000 total, both sides, deaths. He did not feed people thru an industrial shredder alive, did not gas the Kurds, did not have 13 metric tons of yellowcake uranium that we gave to Canada, that could have been refined into two fuel for nuclear devices, did not murder anyone who opposed him politically, etc etc etc,,,,....none of that happened?????
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Bush senior gave saddam permission to invade kuwait. Then he attacked him once kuwait gave him what he wanted. Probably sme oil leases. There was no yellow cake in iraq. The CIA gave saddam gas to use against iran, so we are just as guilty for the kurds getting gassed. The main problem is who decided that we have to be the worlds police.