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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richnorth who wrote (35569)	7/15/2004 9:58:17 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

The claim that Saddam was a US puppet is refuted very well on the Impearls blog if you're interested in research. Suffice it to say that all US arms supplied to Iraq (mostly helicopters) over the entirety of Saddam's rule add up to a smaller number than the arms supplied by the small country of Denmark. It is true that we opposed the conquest of Iraq by Iran and "tilted" toward Iraq for a short portion of the Iraq-Iran war. But Saddam was throughout his rule a client state of the Soviet Union - that country and its Warsaw Pact puppets supplied the vast majority of Iraq's arms. France and China also supplied very large amounts of arms. BTW counting Bush Sr's failure to go for Baghdad as support for Saddam is a strained interpretation. You are correct to think it was a mistake. Bush Sr was constrained by the UN's authorization IMO.