The wrong side in 1990? Saddam should have been allowed to swallow up Kuwait? His next step would have been the Saudi oil fields, then north to Syria, and finally become the greater "liberator of al-Quds."
There is only one right side in any Mideast conflict, and that is whatever is best for Israel.
The only "right side" for the U.S. in any Mideast conflict is to stay the hell out.