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Originally posted by drunkmonkey
Here in lies the fucking idiocy of Americans. Iraq fought for the whole world against the Iranians. Nearly 11 fucking years Iraq defended the world against the revolt of Iranian upheaval. Iraq was supported by every nation on the planet. Where do you think they got chemical agents from?
After the Iranian "standoff", Iraq was left with massive debt. Everyone reliqueshed that debt except Kuwait. Iraq occupied Kuwait and "relinquished" their debt. America stepped in, like the moral police, and sanctioned Iraq. The Irqi people suffer becuause of the sanctions placed by the Americans. That is what they know and that is what they hate.
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HMMM...now who here does not understand his enemy....VMI graduate...cough cough bulshit.
Saddam Hussein went after Iran for the sole purpose of attempting to fullfill his desire to rule the region.
He also knew that if he were to battle the Iranians it would surely please the U.S. because we now had a common enemy due to Khomeni and the fundamentalist overthrowing the Shah of Iran. And when the Iranians started throwing body after body to the front lines and started to gain the upper hand against Iraq, we the US did exactly as he wanted us to.
Got involved.
We funded them, trained them, outfitted them...but funny thing was we did the same with Iran. Eventually a cease fire was drawn up...the Iranians backed off and Saddam wiped out 1,000's of Kurds (possibly 100,000's) with chemical weapons.
Once it was all over and the whole Iran/Contra affair reared it's ugly head Saddam saw how two faced we were, now that his country was going broke due to the lengthy war he decided to invade his neighbor Kuwait, thinking that no one would care.