re: #476 Fozzie Bear

The United States armed Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980’s. Do we now bear no responsibility at all for contributing to a situation in which he murdered his own people using the weapons we provided him?

Agree with your post but the quoted portion is a meme that needs to die. The US sold saddam helicopters. We didn’t sell him guns, tanks, artillery, missiles, or any weapons systems. Hence, the US didn’t “arm” iraq, the soviets did.