simiain: This is not the issue, the issue with your question is why sadly insane was in power.
If you trace his political history you will see how it is conjoined with US/UK foreign policy and thus in the after event hypocrisy.
In the Taliban event i refer you to the same behaviour for ten years they were OK, but then the deal with Unocal and the pipeline fell out of bed.....Both regimes were bad always , however in terms of our excuse to bomb the shit out of the good people of those nations.............
We claim this right of goodness, but it is always about money
Would you call the German people good prior to Hitler becoming Chancellor? Or the Japanese people being good before a group of
militaristic generals and a weak ruling Emporer came to power?
Because we both know eventually what they become under those
leadership groups.
Sadam Hussein gained power, if you read any of the many bio on him.....because the Bathist party first let him be a thug for them, and then when he became close to power, he coup the leader of Iraq and with a assignation. That is how he got to power. Did the Iraqi people have very much choice in that? Or according to your theory of events here....did the US/UK then or later on?
As for the Taliban. They were basically a hogpog croup of Afhani that had been displaced by the Russian/Afhan war. They had connection with bin Laden and the 911 Brigade of that war. When the Russians
withdrew the Taliban saw the void in power, and forced the Afghani
then to become the Northern Alliance out of Kabul and power. That is how they gained power.
See I don't make the connection. That because the US/UK don't immediately respond to a evil man or a evil group coming into power
with some kind of covert plot to undermine them or a mil operation to
remove them. That it is 'our fault'. If one use that rule of thumb, we would be looking to take down 1/4 of the worlds governments, maybe more.
I think that you have to pick your fights. In the 10 years that Sadam was in power....he invaded a country....he was killing 3000 Iraqi monthly....he was funding suciede bombers in Isreal....he had bin Laden speaking for him as a mouth piece to the Moslem world regarding killing westerns....he ran a oil for weapons program.....
the list is long. Yes? Which one in the tipping stone? Maybe trying to have a former US President assignated.
And as for the Taliban. After 9/11 anyone that got close to AlQeada and bin Laden was going to be on our to do list.
During the 10 years prior to all this. We were not putting a cross hair of an optical on these guys close enough. But eventually would you not have it change?
One can say that there are alot of innoconet Iraqi caught in the middle of some very bad stuff in the recent past and now. And I totally agree. But those same innocent Iraqi were going to be caught in the middle of some very bad Sadam Hussien and family stuff as well. His sons neighter which was a angel.....the protons of putting Odi and Uli on the same line with the word angel....want to jumb off of the screen....were going to come to rule that country for the next several generations. The only real hope the Iraqi people had was a removal on them.jmo