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"proto-Fascist"?
Now that's the Kuz I have come to know and love. After reading your first post I was momentarily afraid you had mellowed since your return from Waziristan.
Saddam never had the "capacity to make WMD's whatsoever and had none stockpiled". I assume you are referring to a post Halabja Iraq. The 45 minute claim was a local affair concerning only you brits. Bush's regime had always combined humanitarian reasons with geo-political interests for the project to remove Saddam's Baathist dictatorship. The WMD argument was used as a technical lever to convince a corrupt UN to finally act on it's many ignored resolutions.
You disregarded my last post about Al Qaeda in Iraq preceding the invasion. In the end Saddamist propaganda was entirely Isalmist...Saddam even used his own blood to illustrate a Koran. Iran harbors Many Al Qaeda fugtives despite that organizations Iraqi branch murdering their co-religionists in their thousands. A love of terrorism and a common enemy apparently doesn't prevent them for co-habitating.
Yes, the West did support Saddam against Iran pre 9/11. The idea was to save him from defeat and thereby block the spread of Khomeinist ideology from infecting the wider region. But the US and Britain supplied, by far, much less weaponry than Russia, China, and France and Germany.
Furthermore, if you condemn this policy of supporting Saddam, are you not pleased that this is no longer the case?
So Saddam was "contained" was he? And all that nasty stuff he did was in the past and he had learned his lesson. Would you have removed the sanctions that were allegedly killing so many Iraqi babies? Withdrawn the American and British air-cover protecting the Kurds and Shia? I am amused to find that you use western military power so gratuitously. I suppose you would have them there indefinitely risking their lives over Iraq at your infinite pleasure.
Your anti-white European orthodoxy isn't doing any favors for those starving in the desert of being living under warlord rule in the ever-growing number of failed states. It's very easy to take the positions you do sitting comfortably in London protect by a government and military forces you despise. Perhaps you should go and live in Somalia and see what it feels like.