The only time we should start a war with borrowed money from China is....
If our motherland is directly attacked by an enemy.
Saddam never sent any airplanes to attack our country.
If our leaders had an ounce of brains, they should have figured out that Saddam was a good resistance to the radical regime by Mullah’s in Iran. If anything, we should have helped Saddam against the more powerful Iran.
There have been more attacks on the US than just those involving airplanes.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp?page=1
If anything, we should have helped Saddam against the more powerful Iran.
What, and catch hell for it like McCain is catching hell for the FSA? Actually, we did help Iraq, in a very limited way, for the purposes of screwing both Iraq and Iran. We gave Iraq the locations of targets in Iran relating to Iran's nuclear program and Iraq took them out, which set back Iran a few years. But we did not want to aid the regime because it was after all a Soviet client state and then a Russian and Chinese and French customer, and it had a nasty habit of gassing people, imprisoning and torturing the children of dissidents, killing American army rangers, supporting hijackers like ANO, terrorists like the PFLP, and Ansar al islam and its European terror cells, and Abu Sayyaf which was in the 90s decapitating tourists including Americans in the Philippines, working with Sudan on illicit programs, hosting terrorist conferences in which clerics called for global jihad, running a doozy of a spy network in Europe that had a keen interest n targeting NATO and it was also stocking its embassies with weapons ...
Now there's a fellow or two no one in the press or the Democratic party ever wants to talk about - one is Ali a Timimi... who was handed a huge sentence that the press barely mentioned... and Hikmat Shakir, who had some of the most interesting pocket litter for a guy who was able to escape to Iraq ...not to mention the guy who prepared the explosives for the first attack on the World Trade Center who ended up with a nice retirement package from Saddam and a house until we came along and started bombing Baghdad...