Quote Originally Posted by tony
A couple of things to remember when it comes to Iraq and Saddam:

The Reagan administration aided Iraq with $40 Billion during the Iran-Iraq conflict. Iran could have taken care of this supposed problem before Desert Storm, strange that we now see Iran as a threat.

People like to think George Sr. and George W. are similar but when it came to the conflict in Iraq they could not be any more different. During Desert Storm we went in working multilaterally with other countries, the objective was to keep Iraq out of Kuwait.. not go after Saddam so those who complain about not getting the job done the first time, blame Sr for not going out on a limb.
nothing new there, just like how the US used to give funds and equipment to afghan "freedom fighters" when they were combating the russians...