Around and round the houses goes Teribus to avoid the point, blabbering on like a politician.
Quite simply, Saddam was slaughtering the Marsh Arabs and the pleas of the various human rights groups were ignored, money was more important than the lives of the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs.
Surely you wouldn`t equate the Russians and the French with the British, those fine upstanding battlers for the rights of man.