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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (281181)3/22/2006 6:54:27 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1573927
 
Why didn't he want a ruthless dictator like Saddam to lose to Iran?

It wouldn't have been in the US interest or the interests of most of the rest of the world for that to happen. Iran would have dominated the Persian Gulf, if it overwhelmingly won and put a puppet government over Iraq or annexed Iraqi territory. Perhaps such an overwhelming win wasn't likely but a smaller scale win, while it would have smaller negatives, wouldn't have had that much in the way of positives. What good would have come from Iran winning the war?

Your comments above are very ironic.......it was Saddam who attacked Iran and it was Saddam who later attacked Kuwait. Therefore in the 1980s, it was Saddam who posed the greatest threat to stability of this part of the ME.......while Iran was minding its own business.

And yet the Reagan adminstration supported Saddam. Do you see what I mean about critical thinking? Something is very faulty in that process with you and seemingly with other people who have a Republican focus.
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