Which American President told the people of Iraq to "rise up against Saddam and the US would support them?"

Question

This President then reneged and pulled back our troops. Ultimately, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens were injured or killed, with an environmental holocaust as a result of oil spills in the Gulf, and Saddam Hussein's troops setting fire to Kuwaiti oil wells.
The worst part of this story is that Saddam Hussein remained in power, and continued to oppress his citizens and then slaughter the Kurdish people with bio weapons obtained from the Reagan administration.
Name this American President and...

for extra points, name his Defense Secretary who covertly armed and funded Saddam Hussein's military right up to the Kuwaiti invasion in August 1990, eventually leaving the American taxpayers holding $2 Billion in defaulted Iraqi debt

archangel, that's because anything other than your days talking points from Karl Rove is considered "left wing loon".

Ask ANYONE whe served in Desert Storm....they'll slap the fact into that sweaty head of yours.

Answer 1

And I do love your questions. Not NEARLY enough has been said about how many of our own weapons are regularly used against our troops because we've been f****ing around in the Middle East for decades, first PROVIDING WEAPONS to this regime and then PROVIDING WEAPONS AND TRAINING to that regime.
I'll bet you a dollar that the Iraqi military we are training right now will later use that training to kill some Americans. Why learn from history, right? (It might not sound patriotic to point out our previous screw ups, so let's just pretend they didn't happen!)

Answer 2

the united states, the united kingdom, France and Germany have been complicit in providing Iraq with the skill and expertise to fabricate the two organic and organic and chemical weapons. i come across it increasingly greater extraordinary that somewhat than embarking upon reasoned arguments, individuals in many circumstances hotel to call calling while they're confronted with the undemanding certainty. people like your self are the two observed as facists of liberal Jews. The chilly puzzling certainty of the project is that for the duration of the Anfal and Duijal campaigns against the Kurds and Shia people, usa and the united kingdom knew finished nicely what replace into occurring - they have been Iraq's staunchest supporters. certainly they might nonetheless be allies immediately have been in no longer for the certainty that Iraq invaded Kuwait threatening the U. S.'s oil hobbies. Even after the 1st Gulf conflict, usa and the united kingdom did no longer something different than be sure that Kuwait's oil hobbies have been risk-free. that they had the possibility then to seize him and placed across him to justice for his previous infractions, yet they left having secured the oil and leaving the Shia people to be systematically slaughtered [as that they had supported the Western powers]. it is likewise an exciting certainty that usa has refused to sign the international Statute of the criminal courtroom [ICC] which tries conflict criminals and of direction Iraq is a non-signatory. If Saddam were tried on the ICC usa and the united kingdom might have had no administration over the courtroom circumstances besides the fact that if surreptious. there's a wealth of literature concerning the ineffectiveness of kinfolk Tribunals - e.g Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. The trial in Iraq replace right into a farce and lots under the factors envisioned of international courts and tribunals. this is actual the peak of hypocrisy that maximum American's are screaming the loudest approximately Saddam being a "conflict criminal" while his very strikes have been proper to them almost 20 years in the past while they stood lower back and did no longer something while hundreds of folk have been killed. forget approximately approximately any adverse comments you will get .. as quickly as lower back this is the HERD MENTALITY with people no longer able to formulate strategies of their very own. to place it very bluntly it rather is particularly uneducated and that i might anticipate no longer something greater from such people!! P.S i'm British and am analyzing international regulation.

Answer 3

President George Herbert Walker Bush
I am not sure if he told them that or if it was General "Stormin" Norman Schwarzkopf and Bush did not support it.

Anyway, the Shiites and the Kurds rose up, but no help came from the U.S. Saddam Hussein then slaughtered 1000s of Kurds and Shiites.

Answer 4

Bush I
Dick Cheney

Answer 5

Bush Sr.
Unfortunately the rest of the world would not have supported a measure such as removing Saddam at that time. Bush Sr did not have the stomach to support such a move. Thankfully his son has been more able to buck the international community and do what it right, rather than what is popular. Even though he will be hated for his lifetime by many people over time as long as we succeed in Iraq his reputation will be regained.

Answer 6

Bush Sr.

edit: None other then the now vice president of the United States, his majesty Dead Eye Dick Cheney. Had to look that one up.

Answer 7

George Bush the 1st. I still remember that statement. He said that in 1992.

Answer 8

Papa and the anti-Christ (if I were to believe in such at thing) Cheney
I know I am late, but I see the connection and this sort of avenging those that step up against my father sort of tragedy. I knew the second "junior" was elected that we would go to war w/ Iraq the mantra of their inauguration was "sadam sadam sadam."

Answer 9

george bush, president #41
dick cheney, defense secretary
i guess old cia connections are hard to sever for ghwb.
or maybe he had the foresight to realize he would be in the mess that his son is in now
thats also why we knew sadam had wmds - we gave them to him....

Answer 10

I did a search for "rise up against saddam and the us would support" them and I got page after page of left wing loon propaganda sites.

Why is that?

edit: I'd love to meet Karl Rove. I've heard he is extremely intelligent and seems like a decent good man.