Originally posted by: dahunan
In the future we will find Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin on a site exactly like that.
And the reason I called it a troll post is because the Rumsfield - Saddam photos have been out there forever months before we actually went to war
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" << that used to be one of Internationnal policies and is how/why we also trained Osama. Osama was trained by the US to fight the Soviet Union/Communism
Saddam was given assistance to fight the Communists and Iran
You are incorrect. Osama was never trained by the US. The US gave money to the Pakistani ISI, who trained and funded Afghani resistance groups of their choosing. Osama didn't get much, because he was independently wealthy and did not need US funding. He really didn't do much fighting, mainly just funded and organized resistance groups. To claim the US created Osama, as many like to do to somehow blame the US for 9/11(which is retarded, you don't blame Harvard because on of their graduates uses his education to become a really good serial killer), is a bit silly, because he would've become what he became regardless of whether or not the US helped him out a little bit. The you've also got that whole thing about hindsight being 20/20 and us having no way of knowing what the aftermath of helping the Afghanis fight off the Soviets would be.
Was the US wrong to help the Afghanis? Of course not. There is no possible way we could've seen the eventual outcome of those events.
Saddam wasn't given much help against Iran, and was mainly given it because it looked like Iran was going to kick his ass, and we didn't want any one power dominating the Middle East. It wasn't really a communist threat thing, since the Iranians weren't communists, though we were pissed as hell at them for that whole embassy thing. At the time, Iraq was a secular, fairly rational(or at least predictable) regime in a region of uncertain theocratic pyschopaths, having them go under wouldn't have been much good for anyone.