Think about the chronology of US-Iraq relations in the last 20 years:
-- 1980s: Reagan administration sells chemical weapons and other arms to Saddam Hussein to use in war against Iran. (then secretly sells arms to Iran in order to illegally fund the Contras in Nicarauga). Saddam uses our weapons on his own people. Thanks to Reagan's help, Saddam grows strong enough to eventually invade Kuwait.
-- 1990-1991: Bush I administration tells Saddam we won't get inolved in a border dispute with Kuwait. Saddam reads this as an OK to invade Kuwait, which panics Bush and leads to the Gulf War.
-- 2001 - Present: Bush is tricked by Iran into invading Iraq to take out Saddam. Iran's agent convinces the Bush Administration that Saddam has WMDs (and despite lack of real proof, the Bushies choose to believe it and spread it). Iran's agent also convinces Bush Admin. that we will be welcomed as liberators. Bush leads us into a war with no exit strategy that results in a terrorist recruiting bonanza, humanitarian and PR disaster that will take us a generation from which to recover.
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