Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
This is the paradox for the US, do nothing in 1988 and get bitched at invade the country and take down their dictator in 2003 and get bitched at....we're CONSTANTLY in a no win situation it's either "Mind your own business!" or "Aren't you going to help?" and with every situation there are at least 2 sides and usually they'll say both of those things.
But you weren't minding your own business, you were actively backing Saddam because he was at war with Iran, a country whose regime you were trying to overthrow because they'd overthrown the previous Iranian dictatorial regime that you'd installed in power. And Reagan actually got the DIA to make a report blaming the gassing of the kUrds on Iran so that the US could still continue to support Saddam without getting criticised/sanctioned for it. You were minding your own business in the Middle East in the 1980s in the same way that Adolf Hitler was minding his own business in central Europe in the 1930s.