Posted on 07/17/2017 5:43:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Bump for later.
George W. Bush deserved every bit of it. He pissed away thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars on his stupid war-mongering globalism.
I think we were being mild, in fact. He deserves a lot worse than that.
Saddam was no friend of ours notwithstanding.
And he was a Nazi. The Ba’ath Party is based on the combination of Arab Nationalism and Arab Socialism. Nazism preceded the Ba’athists in Egypt too, through Nasser.
But we supported him for awhile against Iran which created a sort of balance of power as it were and middle east stability as best as could be expected. Of course Hussein was a brutal evil bastard but unfortunately that’s what it takes to control brutal evil bastard people in some parts of the world. Look what we’ve got now!
The left supported him, more like. Originally, these Islamic national-socialist regimes were supported by the USSR to oppose US influence and of course to put Israel on the back foot. Essentially, “we” have done the wrong thing in the region since 1947.
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