It made sense, at the time, for the U.S. to support Iraq because it couldn't support Iran (hostage incident and all)
What? :-) Are you saying the US absolutely had to furnish one side with chemical weapons and all? Had to get involved? Had to? Really?
While you can pull up the odd photo of Rumsfeld together with Saddam in the early 80s, their are a ton of photos of Chirac and Saddam (dating back to 1973) all cozy and smiling at each other sitting on couches or facing each other on fancy armchairs, inspecting factories and on and on...
Oh that changes everything, then. Please.
You seem to think a few photos matter. They don't. What matters far more is that it was the US who helped Saddam build up its WMD arsenal, which they then used as an excuse to invade Iraq. That is pathetic. I cannot believe you are just stuck on some photos and fail to see this.
what France has done, building a friendly business relationship (don't forget Chirac's own family and relations have benefitted financially from their Saddam connection) that clouds its judgement, imo
Care to elaborate on that "Chirac's family" comment?
Are you sure you want to go there? We can dig up a lot of personal connections of Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, et al to oil companies that will surely benefit (has already started to benefit, in fact) from the invasion of Iraq.
I wonder how cozy the Iraqi people will want to be in the future with their oppressors friend France
Let me put it this way - It is not the French they are killing every day in Iraq.
Elsewhere, I don't know if you have been outside the US in the past year, but the French are quite loved pretty much everywhere, while you might like to take care when you mention you are American. |
