A) We are going after Saddam to protect ourselves and to liberate those people and he is bringing his forces into the urban centers. War is ugly, welcome to the world.
What about my point about the sanctions?
B)It was far from democratic
What was it then?
The Shah wasn't democratic either. Why did we set him up instead of a democracy?
C)bin Laden never, repeat NEVER, worked for the CIA. What he did was reactivate the intelligence network we laid out when we assisted the Afghans against the Soviet invasion. Besides, even if we had directly helped him, it makes him the backstabbing asshole, not us.
"He received security training from the CIA itself, according to Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian." (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/155236.stm)
D) We were backing Iraq against what we though were a greater threat to us.
And that makes it acceptable that we did nothing to help the Kurds?
We also urged the Kurds and the Shiites of Iraq to rise up against Saddam during the first Persian Gulf war, and then we did not back them up as we promised.