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The US didn't occupy Iraq territory after 2003 and they still murdered hundreds of thousands in cold blood and destroyed an entire country, leaving it without infrastructure or future prospects, to be ravaged by radicalism and poverty.
They want to do this to Iran too. Please stop jumping to defend the western genocidal empire
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123751&page=1
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-id-of-mesopotamia
Let's not pretend things were going well under Saddam Hussein either.
Literal FOX News levels of the extrajudicially-murdered individual wasn't a saint either. Saddam sucked, but what the US brought was a million times worse.
I really don't think that's the case.
The USA and the UK were massive supporters of Saddam and his reign until we decided he was no longer useful. Literally giving him billions and billions of weapons. We allowed him to consolidate power and act as a destabilizing force in the region until we decided he was bad, but until then he was a very close ally. https://archive.globalpolicy.org/iraq-conflict-the-historical-background-/us-and-british-support-for-huss-regime.html
That doesn't surprise me, the US in particular is very good at supporting their future enemies.
That's just because you're an ignorant then
Getting called ignorant by a Saddam apologist is... Something.
"""Saddam apologist""" here meaning, anyone who opposed the Iraq War.
Fucking hawks, I stg. Every time.