2007-08-30 10:20:39 · 11 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
it was good then and bad when they were looking for excuses.
2007-08-30 10:27:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was good at the time. During the Cold War.
The world was polarized then. The situation was completely different. All anybody saw was the two sides of the Cold War. Everything revolved around that. So at the time, it benefited the US.
Its comparing apples and oranges. Here is another example... was it right to rebuild Germany after WWII, even though we fought them twice? All of a sudden, they were on our side against the USSR. Before that, was it right to send supplies to the USSR to fight Germany during WWII? The USSR became our enemy after that?
The world changes. With it political situations and allies change.
2007-08-30 10:32:11 · answer #2 · answered by mnbvcxz52773 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not only did Ronald Reagan sell arms to Saddam Hussein he also traded arms for hostages to Iran.
2007-08-30 10:27:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think Reagan supported Bush's CIA plan to install a CIA cell (Saddam) in power.
2007-08-30 10:28:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i could say Richard Nixon because of the fact he Lived In regular Denial and he additionally Lived In regular Sin. in the process the Watergate scandal, he tried to end the study which exchange right into a criminal offense for impeachment. Nixon exchange into additionally not honest on the subject of the occasions that observed after the wreck in to the Democratic celebration Headquarters and could say what exchange into mandatory to sound have faith able whilst what he exchange into asserting exchange into not genuine. I do have faith Nixon could have been impeached and faraway from place of work if he had stayed in place of work longer yet he desperate to resign from place of work and make Gerald Ford the President of america of a.
2016-11-13 20:37:32 · answer #5 · answered by bhupender 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was bad, it gave hussein the weapons and techonology to do the things he did, he was the only thing holding the middle east together, thats one mess we never should have stepped into.
2007-08-30 10:30:35 · answer #6 · answered by linda f 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good. Give them both as many weapons as they want to destroy each other.
A prolonged Iraq-Iran war is good for us. Hopefully they will do it again in a couple years.
2007-08-30 10:28:54 · answer #7 · answered by Biggg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any political figure from any side supporting any dictator in "an enemy of my enemy is my friend" relationship is almost always bad later on.
2007-08-30 10:28:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean America or the United States? not the same thing you know ;-)
2007-08-30 10:25:22 · answer #9 · answered by r1b1c* 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
source?
2007-08-30 10:27:19 · answer #10 · answered by America_Akbar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋