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[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 year ago

And they knew it.

It’s worth going back to the 1980s to start pulling that thread though. The US and west have been messing around in Iraq since the Iran Iraq war. Probably Saddam’s greatest mistake was shaking hands with the devil.