Sometimes alliances are transitory. Yeah, okay, I accept the simplistic premise we put Saddam in power and kept him there.
And then, realizing our mistake, took his freakin’ a$$ OUT!
Exactly. If Saddam was our fault and a result of our blowback as his little minions like to say, then whose responsibility would it be to clean up the mess we made? Us. Their little blowback discussions can easily be turned on them in so many ways.