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To: GraceG

When you look back, yes Saddam was a bad guy.

But this is the Arab World we’re talking about, this is par for the course....Why did we pick on him....He was our pal when they were fighting the Iranians.


41 posted on 08/08/2014 8:30:18 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

[ When you look back, yes Saddam was a bad guy.

But this is the Arab World we’re talking about, this is par for the course....Why did we pick on him....He was our pal when they were fighting the Iranians. ]

Yeah in some ways we shouldn’t have backed him much like we shouldn;t have backed the mujahadeen in Afghanistan. But the alternative was to let Iran’s Mullahs and the soviets encounter no resistence...


43 posted on 08/08/2014 8:35:21 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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