Irqui sitution end of 2002 essays

Irqui sitution end of 2002 essays Yes, there is little question that Saddam Hussein is no Martin Luther King, Jr.; no question that he is no Ghandi, no doubt that he has subjugated many millions of people and terrorized his own countrymen and has little right to legitimate leadership. Unfortunately, the story is not so simple and our own government is not immune to criticism in the making of this monster. A short chronology of this... The Carter Hostage Situation: It is well known that Regan- Bush Operatives made a deal with Iranian militants to prevent the return of the hostages until after the elections. The Regan Bush tandem won the election vis-a-vis the hostage situation. The result of this deal led to arms and narcotics deals spanning the world from the Middle East to Iran-Contra in violating U.S. law. Moreover, the Regan-Bush administration supported Saddam against Iran giving Saddam chemical and biological capacity. The documents have been published. Eventually these were used against the Kurds. After an eight year war with Iran in which we supported Iraq and had squandered billions of dollars, Saddam asked our ambassador to Iraq (a women) what would our position be if he invaded Kuwait. He was told we do not have a position. Being an Arab and a Muslim, and not trusting a women, he went to a higher up in the State Department and got essentially the same answer. My guess is that he thought it was a tacit consent, and so he invaded Kuwait. Undoubtedly to his great surprise, he was setup. His boys in Washington turned on him: The Bush administration. They played him for a sucker and as the scapegoat of our failed Mideast policy. Not one bit of evidence connects Iraq with terrorism with the exception of funding the families of Palestinian suicide bombers after the fact. There certainly is no connection with the 911 perpetrators. In fact, Saddam suppressed Islamic fundamentalism vis-a-vis war with Iran and at home. He appears to be quite right-wi ...