Quote Originally Posted by Invader View Post
I thought Bush senior sold them the WMD? Isn't that what made the alleged reports kind of... rediculous?
I think he did (Or was it Reagan?), but that was before the Hussein regime went Islamoterrorist and became our enemy. When they used sarin gas in an attack on the Kurds, we started to think, "Oh shit, these people are nuts." The financial incentives for Palestinian bombings in Israel put up danger signs too. So did their take over of Kuwait. Giving WMD's to any questionable government is crazy, even if they are our ally against a common enemy. I can express some understanding for giving the Hussein regime WMD's, but I majorly disagree with it, and they turned out to be like a large scale Manson family.

I was looking at a world history book this morning and thinking about how the relations among nations are so much like professional wrestling. The way European nations played alliance musical chairs in the 18th century looks profoundly stupid, for example. If really advanced aliens are watching Earth, they think this is a moron planet.