US and British Support for the Hussein Regime, what do you think of this?

Question

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/history/husseinindex.htm

Bored Lawyer - I asked what you thought of it? Why so much protest?

"You don't really prove much of anything by asking us to look at the past but forget that it's the past"-

Yes, let's forget history, we learn nothing from it.

Answer 1

goes deeper then that how about this.
RICH americans and well connected americans began purchasing political families for one purpose.
TO control a growing work force and promote disharmony among the people to keep wages low and profits up.
AFTER world war 2 americans worked like never before and had the ability for 1 man to support the family as oppertunitys began to increase for women who worked in plants and as secretarys in large cities met and married returning G.I.'s a level of semi skilled women who knew the business practices of large companies shared this knowledge with hubby and america boomed like never before the working man had unions and some brains now married to women who had worked in offices replacing men for the previous 3 decades and women where nicer to look at.
this began the sexual revolution back in the 1950's women new what men did not that they had all the power and contol of there bodies and used them to marry and succeed at the office or home.
SMART rich guys saw this trend of sex for money and better pay for women who played office all day and played wife all evening.rich men would never allow a women to work even if she wanted to
SO women began to assist in community's like never before and made there management husbands vote for people willing to help the poor minoritys .socialism was now born and the sexual revolution and social movement was born right in the 50's not sixties as they would have you beleive.
this put a kink in the plan who knew women wanted freedom so badly after all they had been taken care of by men for so long.
the cat was out of the bag and rich power full men needed to combat this trend . the more the workers have the more they want so lets destroy the american family.GOD fearing christians lived the simple life and religious taboo's on sex and drugs worked well and the few who strayed were left to struggle no longer part of the community .whats this a way to control americans .seperate them from working as a family to get ahead and demand higher wages by spliting people up drugs ademon that splits families in the sixtys and seventies also engulfed a race of people who were seperated the same way from good folks that went to church and worked hard never complained or quit there jobs good solid americans (I CALL THEM BRAINWASHED)
why are people like david duke and the kkk allowed to prosper and people like david koresh demonized by the government.
LINKING religion to fundimentalists like david and his protest of government rights infrigements brought the whole plan of the rich into possible harm .
people might link religious control to guns and freedom .
the plan developed in the fiftys was to have women and men begin working toghether by keeping down wages as much as possible and those with an education and drive soon moved up white peoplemarried 3 kids and a dog worked hard and owned what they had.
the rest of women and men were left behind to work and support the new military industrial complex bent on a world takeover at some point . this part of the plan has failed with many nations having nukes but we still try to keep it to a minimum cause god forbid we negotiate from an equal footing.
the rich and the government are now the same with the same goals control ;and sex and drugs and religion and party politics all play a part in keeping america a slave nation with minoritys as drug peddlers and lazy.working americans as trailer trash addicted to imorality and booze and drugs middle americans plagued by the lower two classes and asperations of wealth and power imitating there public ways never looking at there involvement in money laundering and drug trafficing and government ties to drugs from south china cia afganistan cia central and south america cia and all used to over through governments not following the game plan of divid and conqure at all costs .WE must have the ruking elite cause with out them peace and freedom may break out all over the world and people would bite the hand that steals from them there lives work for penneys on the dolar so 5% live like kings drugs whores and debachery homosexuality all behind private gates .5% so driven to make that leap into ultimate pwoer and control serving these evil people 80% in the middle somewhere all focused on drugs and perversions of the poorest 10% with minoritys filling the bottom 35% of low paying jobs follew by white kids from union homes who made some progress before it was ended barely staying above water with help from mommy and daddy which they have made everone think is wrong .for the family to help out .BUSH drugs cocain pot dui still taken care off by his family became president no look at yours tough love and kick them out .
forces are at work here for one reason divide america and keep them working for penuts.

Answer 2

You don't really prove much of anything by asking us to look at the past but forget that it's the past. When the West was supporting Hussein, it was during the Cold War. At that time, this country faced a real possibility of being attacked with thousands of nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union. To try to avoid this, the US opposed Soviet-backed regimes around the world. Granted, many of these were dirt-bag dictatorships that we would not have supported otherwise. In the big picture, though, it was necessary to have such "allies" because the enemy who threatened us was so formidable. Iraq was also pretty normal for a Mid-East country of that era, and it was definitely better than its neighbor Iran. Iran, you might recall, really was our enemy, and Iraq was fighting a war with them, which made support for Iraq perfectly rational. I think you're cherry-picking history and ignoring the big picture, apparently because you think you have a point to make. On the upside, this may make you eligible to run the CIA!

If you're so upset about who we supported decades ago, are you not offended at the other governments who supported worse regimes during those times? What about China, which supports North Korea, Iran, and others still today?

I get the feeling that we'd probably agree on a lot of the underlying issues, but I think your attempt to manufacture a valid point out of selective history lessons is almost as one-sided, inaccurate, and useless as one of Bush's speeches.

Answer 3

That is not the first time we have supported and then not supported a regime. We also gave him the WMD's that were so recently found. Plus other weapons. We needed him at that time. For oil especially. When he went after the oil in Kuwait, we then declared him as enemy. Funny that he invaded a sovereign country and we yelled foul, but we did the same and people say wow.
This is for bored lawyer The USSR was failing when we supported Hussein. It had nothing to do with missles and attacks.

Answer 4

I had no idea the the US and British have supported Saddam in the past. And now look at what they did. Both "special relationship" countries have created a monster out of him and the whole thing became a _big_ mess they have to clean up. Shame on the CIA and MI6!

Answer 5

It was a pretty good idea. Saddam was a nice counter balance to religious extremism in the region. Unfortunately, Saddam would not leave Kuwait when GB senior asked him to.

Answer 6

Its a shame on our behalf. It just shows our governments as the hypocrites they really are