I love how desperate the Left is getting in this country. I think a lot of them are very upset Saddam was caught, and would rather see him come to power again rather than see him captured. What a sick thought, but it's something they, whether they want to admit it or not, support.
but let's not forget that the US both FUNDED this man as well as turned a BLIND EYE
This is one of my all time favorite left-wing comebacks. Here's the facts:
Iran had taken over a hundred american hostages and was the breeding ground (and still is) for international terrorism. The US had two options to deal with Iran.
1. Blow them all to hell and invade their country.
2. Counter-act the growing threat by supporting a regime in the region that could keep the Iranian revolution in check and from not spilling over into the entire middle east.
Now leftist everywhere will freak out if we invade a country, right? So we can't do that of course. We would be considered imperialist. Remember Somalia? Geez, weren't we just the worst people in the world, allowing ourselves to get shot at just to give people some rice. There wasn't any oil involved as far as I know. What a bunch of imperialist we were.
That leaves us with option 2, the lesser of two evils. We supported Saddam because in the Middle East you take what you can get. He was the only option we had for dealing with Iran. Boo-hoo. That's the way it works folks. You don't want us invading countries and we can't be a bunch of isolationist, so tell me, what we're we to do?
Just because we armed him to fight Iranians didn't give him the right to kill innocent kurds and whoever else he killed. Those were things he did of his own malicious intent. My tax dollars that go towards funding my city's SWAT team units don't make me responsible for an idiot, gung ho cop who decides to shoot up an innocent person.