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**Feflyinvelf** · 01-05-2011, 01:38 AM

Exactly.

Saddam Hussein was armed by the US in the eighties, when Iran was considered the bigger threat.

Haven´t seen many posts from the OP in the past complaining about that little fact...

We were selling Japan airplanes, and the tools and scrap steel they were using to build their war machine, up until October of 1940.

We continued to sell them oil until July of the following year.

I do remember many liberals screaming bloody murder about the U.S. arming Iraq in the eighties during the run-up to OIF, but I don't recall any of them coming down too hard on Roosevelt for arming an enemy which actually posed a threat to the United States.

I guess this is what you might call some of that partisan duplicity.

01-05-2011, 01:38 AM	#37
Feflyinvelf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 351 Senior Member	Exactly. Saddam Hussein was armed by the US in the eighties, when Iran was considered the bigger threat. Haven´t seen many posts from the OP in the past complaining about that little fact... We were selling Japan airplanes, and the tools and scrap steel they were using to build their war machine, up until October of 1940. We continued to sell them oil until July of the following year. I do remember many liberals screaming bloody murder about the U.S. arming Iraq in the eighties during the run-up to OIF, but I don't recall any of them coming down too hard on Roosevelt for arming an enemy which actually posed a threat to the United States. I guess this is what you might call some of that partisan duplicity.
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