He was not containing anybody. Don’t ever mistake Saddam for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi or Hosni Mubarak. If Saddam was friends with Assad to the point of trusting him with Iraq’s chemical weapons and enriched uranium, then he had already fixed his relations with Iran too, and who knows what the cost of that.
The Colonel is a black conservative freeper
and anyone who knows me knows I don’t grant brownie points for skin color and he and I disagree pretty strong on Southern historical issues
but he is no liberal and certainly no DU troll
and he has been here 8 years longer than you
just saying
I got nothing against you either and yes i agree with you about Iran
but i am about truth..as I see it or empirical..hopefully they don’t diverge much
truth is conservatism..even the ugly