I've heard the US supported both to weaken them. Is this true?
2007-04-05 05:41:02 · 11 answers · asked by koooone 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
No.
What we did instead was make sure that they both lost.
(We even publicly announced that this was our policy when the war started!)
2007-04-05 05:44:20 · answer #1 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We supported Iraq Russia supported Iran
2007-04-05 05:48:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sort of. There was some materiel support ranging from computers to civilian helicopters supplied to both countries through various means during that time, none of which probably really contributed to the final outcome. Iraq's arms came mainly from European and Russian sources, Iran was using arms left over from when they were our ally and some other stuff bought from Europeans.
We were pretty content to sit by and watch at that time.
2007-04-05 05:50:33 · answer #3 · answered by thegubmint 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What a wrong stories!!! US give weapons and financial support for Iraq NOT IRAN. and about WHY: because of the OIL
2016-05-17 23:05:14 · answer #4 · answered by margarite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you want one to win when both can lose and from the failure of both comes two weak governments you can manipulate. Its good for the economy of the world if both governments die in the long-term. A missile is either built out of fear or optimism.
There are enough AK-47's to arm one person out of every 12th in the world, who supplies the world with arms and why do these nations supply them?
2007-04-05 07:01:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We supported Iraq. A small clique within the gov sold weapons illicitly to Iran to fund an allied non-state actor in Latin America.
2007-04-05 06:02:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
actually - we supported Iran and provided them weapons until the Shah was deposed and the hostages were taken in 1979. at that point, we changed our allegiance to Iraq and bolstering Saddam's political and military strength (which eventually backfired -- just like Castro, Amin, Ghadaffi, Noriega, etc).
2007-04-05 06:16:50 · answer #7 · answered by George in Texas 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just iraq and now look whats happend they are about to go into iran [mad]
2007-04-09 05:20:28 · answer #8 · answered by CARL P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no.
we supported iraq.
it was this period of time that gives us those priceless photos of donald rumsfeld shaking hands with saddam.
no wonder rummy couldn't tell the difference between known unknowns and unknown unknowns...
2007-04-05 05:49:23 · answer #9 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
N O!!! FALSE on the second question!!
2007-04-05 06:13:15 · answer #10 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋