re: #530 The Sanity Inspector

Iran was holding American hostages at the time of the war’s outbreak. IIRC, our “backing” of Saddam commenced two years later, when Iran was in danger of prevailing, and spreading the Islamic revolution westwards. Pure realpolitik, nothing more—although liberals ever afterwards insisted it was because eeevilll Cheney and Rumsfeld couldn’t help but bunny-hug their fellow monster, Saddam.

/*spit*

Oh, so our backing of Iraq’s invasion, that would be our backing of Saddam Hussein, was two years after the release of the hostages. That just makes too much sense.

No actually it doesn’t. It just puts the lie to any neoconservative claim to morality or freedom. Not realpolitik. Real stupid.