yes and 7 years before that they started slaughtering people at the Olympics.
That’s the very first thing I thought of when he said that.
Saddam Hussein slaughtered thousands Kurds of Halabja with nerve gas just shy of 21 years ago in March 1988, while the US looked the other way because Iraq was our bulwark against Iran and the Soviets.
If that’s the kind of “respect and partnership” Obama seeks, I despair for the future of the long-suffering victims of the tyrannies of the Arab world.