Re: Which is all more shameful when one knows...
Of all the arguments to continue the status quo of appeasing saddam, the 'we used to sell him stuff' is about the lamest.
If you have a neighbor that you like, you treat him well.
If you know of a guy in a rotten neighborhood who might be able to clean up the neighborhood, you treat him well.
We figured out 12 years ago that saddam is a pos.
We changed in response to that.
The Euros haven't.
Or don't want to.
What the relationship with sadam was before he started gassing his own people and invaded Kuwait is irrelevant.
hitler and nazi-run companies were big players in the American economy in the runup to WWII. Should we then not have fought hitler?
Get real.
Ed