Here is a quote about the Iraq-Iran War:


"Many observers...believe that Saddam Hussein's decision to invade Iran was a personal miscalculation based on ambition and a sense of vulnerability. Saddam Hussein...feared that Iran's new revolutionary leadership would threaten Iraq's delicate Sunni-Shia balance and would exploit Iraq's geostrategic vulnerabilities--Iraq's minimal access to the Persian Gulf, for example.

The Iran-Iraq War was multifaceted and included religious schisms, border disputes, and political differences. Conflicts contributing to the outbreak of hostilities ranged from centuries old Sunni-versus-Shia and Arab-versus-Persian religious and ethnic disputes, to a personal animosity between Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini. Above all, Iraq launched the war in an effort to consolidate its rising power in the Arab world and to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state. Phebe Marr, a noted analyst of Iraqi affairs, stated that 'the war was more immediately the result of poor political judgement and miscalculation on the part of Saddam Hussein', and 'the decision to invade, taken at a moment of Iranian weakness, was Saddam's'. "


No, the US did not make Saddam a thug, he was born one. No, the US did not put him in power, he murdered his way to the top of the Baath Party and rigged the election. No, the US did not support his war on Iran, but we did help Iraq fight to a stalemate when Iran became the aggressors and appeared ready to defeat Saddam and absorb most of Iraq's land and oil, as well as the people (70% are Shiite) into the Islamic Theocracy called Iran.

[thanks for signing as "Ifor"...you are obviously both "Mousey McConville" and "Heddwyn" and others. Your previous posts are the of an extreme Leftist and a rabid anti-American]