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:	post by ShadowSD at 2006-06-09 13:47:04

Man_of_the_Century said:

Yup, we did help him into power, and it was a mistake (people make those sometimes). When it was publicly known that he was killing his own people, we cut ties with Iraq.

It was publicly known from the early 80's that he was killing his own people. That's how he rose to power initially, and it was no secret. Yet we didn't cut ties until he invaded Kuwait in 1990.

Man_of_the_Century said:

Which countries were we buddy-buddy with while they killed thier people? Make sure when you look for examples you make sure we were helping them while we knew it was going on. Not we were helping them before the killing, and didn't know (and saying "we had to know" doesn't count - only proof does)or after the killings, in an attempt to solve the situation diplomaticly.

US history is full of instances of supporting countries when we know about their human rights violations. From Stalin's USSR during WWII to the recent episode with Cheney prasing Azerbaijan and Kahzekstan, this fact is not in dispute. I think you were getting more mileage from the "people make mistakes" argument than from this one.

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