Saddam Hussein allies with the U.S.???

Question

a friend told me that at some point Hussein was allies with this country and that was during the same time he was doing his crimes against his people so America is being very hypocritical about his trial and death, is this true?
yes, i know, im not much of a history wiz, that and i am fairly young still, can't remmember that far back.

Answer 1

Ally is not the correct word - there was no close bond between us. We did help him, however, against Iran because the Iranians were looking to control all of the Persian Gulf, and thus control the flow of oil.

Supporting Saddam was the lesser evil. But he was never an "ally". As for the canard (lie) that we gave him billions in weapons or gave him WMD, that's simply not true. He got most of his weapons from France and Russia.

Facts matter.

Answer 2

After unsuccessfully attempting to reach President George H.W. Bush and other top officials (who were on vacation) to ask for permission to invade Kuwait, he finally touched base with Bush's ambassador to Iraq on July 25, 1990.

At the time Saddam Hussein was a close American ally, receiving billions of dollars in arms shipments and subsidies. Baath Party-ruled Iraq, a U.S. client state, had waged the 1980-88 war against Iran largely at Washington's behest.

Then as now, human rights were not a consideration of U.S. foreign policy.


The killing of Saddam is just like the making of Saddam, all done by the US, and to Iraqis it doesn't matter much if he was hanged or not. The resistence in Iraq has very little to do with Saddam it has to do with power grabs between Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds.

The US instigates the fighting, just as all Occupation forces do, and we have ruined a whole culture for the sake of stealing the Iraqi OIL and the power over other resources of the region.

God Bless America!

Answer 3

Well, yes. I understand that Saddam was a friend of the USA against Iran at some point. The same happened with Noriega in Panama, he was a friend of the USA, then the USA invaded Panama. And the same with Bin Laden. Former friends may become today foes, according to the convenience of the USA. That has been the USA's foreign policy. Those governments need the money, weapons, etc, the USA can give them in exchange for other resources. That is why the USA helped the coup d'etat in Chile against a government elected by the people, and helped Pinochet who was not exactly an example of democracy. Yes, it is hypocrisy in action.

Answer 4

During the 1980s, Iraq was seen as an ally against what the US considered to be the danger of fundamentalist Iran. It supplied Iraq with weapons (including chemical weapon precursors and biological weapons), training, intelligence and funding.

On 25 May 1994, The U.S. Senate Banking Committee released a report in which it was stated that pathogenic (meaning disease producing), toxigenic (meaning poisonous) and other biological research materials were exported to Iraq, pursuant to application and licensing by the U.S. Department of Commerce. It added: "These exported biological materials were not attenuated or weakened and were capable of reproduction." The report then detailed 70 shipments (including Anthrax) from the United States to Iraqi government agencies over three years, concluding that "these microorganisms exported by the United States were identical to those the UN inspectors found and recovered from the Iraqi biological warfare program."

Even after Saddam Hussein used poison gas against Kurds in the town of Halabja, the US, along with China, Germany, France and the UK continued to supply Iraq with weapons. On 21 March 1986, the United Nations Security Council made a declaration stating that "members are profoundly concerned by the unanimous conclusion of the specialists that chemical weapons on many occasions have been used by Iraqi forces against Iranian troops and the members of the Council strongly condemn this continued use of chemical weapons in clear violation of the Geneva Protocol of 1925 which prohibits the use in war of chemical weapons." The United States was the only member who voted against the issuance of this statement. The Reagan administration continued to supply financial aid and weapons after the attack.

Answer 5

The deal was that Iran had american hostiges and Iran and Iraq were enemies. Thats why we hooked up with Iraq.

Answer 6

yes it is true , and when he was accused of killing the kurds , the ones who said it was his no 1 enemy's from Iran, so how much do we want to believe,the U,S, was helping him against Iran when this supposedly happened ,

Answer 7

Yes, at one time we were buddy, buddy with him and backed him when he was at war with the "Persians" (Iranians)