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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb
The U.S. did tilt diplomatically toward Saddam during those eight years, because he was fighting against the regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini and our government believed Saddam to be the lesser of two evils. We didn't support Bin Laden either when he was in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets in the 1980's, although a lot of people think we did.
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We certanly did support many of the folks who later became the Taliban regime. And if we did not overtly supply Hussein, we did covertly - and turned a nice, blind eye to his use of chemical weapons. Seems the name is familiar, too - Rumsfeld!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._su..._Iran-Iraq_war
In any case, I've seen too many of our leaders either distorting the truth or just plain lying over the years to accept what I am told when the politicians are trying to sell me some idea.