“We continued to support Saddam for two years after the reports of what happened to the Kurds were made public. Not after Desert Storm, but during the Iran-Iraq conflict following the fall of the Shah and the rise of the Ayatollah.”


We didn’t support Iraq for Iraq’s sake- we supported them as a counterbalance in securing freedom of the seas and American interests. Whether you take the enemy-of-my-enemy approach or not, ultimately the support we lent to Iraq during their engagements does not equate to the support of a WMD program utilized against its own people. The two events are mutually exclusive. Period.

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“The war with Iran was still going, and we needed him to win. This is not spin, it is fact.”


Again- this fact is not the same as US support for chemical weapon-use against civilians and non combatants. Equating the two is the spin.

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“A show trial almost twenty years later changes nothing. We knew what he had done, and we did nothing to prevent it or respond to it.”


…And no one except you equates that to supporting and condoning the act.

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***Why- prey tell, would we even need to respond elsewhere if our War on Terror is "ended"? If our need to curtail terror activity has ended, why should our ability to respond elsewhere even be an issue?"

“Riiight. Because our epic struggle against terror is the last battle we'll ever fight.”

Hardly. Because a formal end to the coalition’s campaigns against terrorist targets takes place does not follow there is an end to all activity curtailing terrorist violence around the globe.

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“Nor can anything else bad happen in the world, ever. Nope, terror is it. And it's only in Iraq and Afghanistan... or something.”


I wouldn’t tell that to the people of London, Madrid, Norway, or France. Unlike you, they might not be under the false notion that terror attacks only happen in the east portion of the world.

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And speaking of the Taliban, weren't they another group we supported at one time? I could have sworn I read that somewhere... ;-)

Yep, you are absolutely correct- and good job on the reading, I might add. We helped to fund and support their battles with the former Soviet Union. That kind of changed with their involvement with the organized attacks on the United States, which was subsequent to their attacks against US troops involved in the restorative process in Somalia. That’s pretty good reading, too.