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At one point the US encouraged Iraq under Saddam to develop nuclear weapons and sent him top advisors, while they were at war with Iran. Thats a huge threat to
by Synaesthesia 5y ago
At one point the US encouraged Iraq under Saddam to develop nuclear weapons and sent him top advisors, while they were at war with Iran. Thats a huge threat to Iran!
- sofixa 5y agoThankfully Israel (illegally) put a stop to that. The Gulf Wars would have been fun with a nuclear-powered Iraq ( even though one can make the case that Iraq with nukes would never end up in the situation that forced them into the first Gulf War).
- Synaesthesia 5y agoThe Gulf wars were forced by the USA, there were diplomatic options available, that were rejected out of hand and suppressed in the media. But yes highly irresponsible stuff, trying to give Saddam nuclear weapons, taking him off the terror list ... We're pretty much in the nuclear nightmare scenario right now, with everybody's hands poised over the trigger.
- leephillips 5y agoAnd yet Jimmy Carter is still considered a moral paragon. One million dead.
- Synaesthesia 5y agoThe handing over of nuclear tech to Iraq happened under Reagan, yeah Carter did some pretty horrible things in his foreign policy.
- leephillips 5y agoI had in mind the Iran-Iraq war, which is estimated to have cost a million lives, and for which Carter gave his go-ahead. EDIT: Somehow I didn’t know about Reagan’s providing nuclear technology to Saddam. I’m going to have to read up.
- unity1001 5y agoIsrael didnt put a stop to anything about Iraq's nuclear program. Iraq never had any program which could even advance into making something that can explode. So dont make up things.