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22 April 2005, 22:18

I don’t deny the connections between the US and Saddam. I also don’t deny the connections between the US and Stalin’s USSR, especially around the early 40’s. International politics make for stange bedfellows. What’s your point? Hypocrisy? I can think of worse sins. If a convicted murderer writes a book explaining how horrible a crime murder is, should we tar him as a hypocrite?

Do you have any evidence that the US helped Saddam AFTER he gassed the Kurds? A lot of countries have helped a lot of other countries get WMD, but WMD has actually been used very seldom. For example, as France’s asst. defense minister, Chirac played a big role in promoting France’s sale to Saddam of a nuclear reactor. Since the no-blood-for-oil crowd is eager to stipulate that Iraq is one big oil pump, what do you suppose Saddam wanted with that reactor? Are we to believe that Chirac’s a good enough salesman to sell ice to the Eskimos? At least, around the time the Kurds got gassed, the US and Britain got the memo that Saddam’s not a good guy. Chirac protected him to the end.