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Originally posted by Almaci
No its not the same situation.
During the second world war both the USSR as wel as the alied forces including the US were in war with Germany.
Witouth eachothers help the german thread could not be defeated.
With Iraq we have a situation where the US, Germany, France etcetera helped him achieve a dictatorship and kill his own people during a time when those countries were at peace.
There was no threat that warranted the US to help Saddam kill his own people and then blame it on Iran, there was no war that threatened the US at its own shores.
The US aided saddam and covered up for his mass murders of Kurds in the north and shiítes in the south.
It is NOT the same.
And again what does the war in Vietnam have to do with the US and USSR commonly fighting germany in the second world war?