re: #780 McSpiff

I found this intersting about the foreign materials and ‘bear spares’ -

Little today is known about this program as details remain scarce.

But apprently, it’s enought to support an argument that the US armed Saddam…

I will not deny that we provided economic support or the use of military intel to Iraq - - Iraq was the lessor of 2 evils in the realpolitik of the time. However, there were other nations that funded far more of Iraq’s (and Iran’s ) military (Russia, China, Czechoslovakia, Egypt) than the US but that doesn’t fit the meme. That is why its called realpolitik and needs to be examined on the basis of the info of the time.

It’s like calling our alliance with France in 1777-1783 a failure because we fought a quasi war less than 20 years later with France.