The White House has been complaining about weapons coming into Iraq from Iran for a while now. The media pretty much lets this through unquestioned, condemning Iran as an enemy to peace. But in case you haven’t heard, there is a civil war going on in Iraq, so what do you expect? If Iraq was throwing a party, then Iran would be selling cakes. But what does not get mentioned is the fact that Saudi Arabia is also selling weapons. Now, the fact that there’s absolutely no news coverage of that fact might lead one to assume we were on the Sunni’s side. But in actuality, Iraq was already under the control of Iraq’s Sunni minority. Since Shi’ites are the majority population, “De-Bathification” and Democratization by their very definition means giving more power over to Shi’ites. Of course, this also means more power for Iran. The Sunnis, however, control the majority of Saudi Arabi’s oil, which makes them natural allies to the West.

After the Iranians rose up and expelled the tyrannical Shah that the U.S. had illegally replaced their legitimtely elected leader with, the Islamic Revolution began to inspire many of Iraq’s Shi’ites to rise up against Saddam’s Sunni-led government. Since the Ayatollah considered the U.S. the enemy, the Reagan administration allied with Saddam and gave him $40 Billion to help fund his WMD program to fight them. Hence the joke, “We know Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruciton. We have the receipts.” Additional money was spent in convincing Saddam not to ally with the Soviets, making him the third largest recepient of U.S. aid. A famous picture from 1983 shows Rumsfield shaking hands with the dictator. Around a million died and Iraq got into a $75 million debt. Saddam borrowed heavily from other Sunni-led states, much of it was from Kuwait, and since Saddam felt that Kuwait had been protected from the fighting, he argued that the debt should be forgiven. Naturally, Kuwait disagreed. Saddam thought that he could just take over the country and use their oil to help pay off the debt, but failed to realize that the New World Order would not allow this. The UN and Arab countries agreed to help the U.S. expel Saddam, but would not help take him out of power. When asked about taking Saddam out of power, Bush Sr. foolishly made a speech saying that the Iraqi people should do it themselves. Taking this as a que, the Kurds rose up, believing the U.S. would help, and got hit by a poison gas attack, killing some 5,000 civilians. According Iraq’s report to the UN, the know-how and material for developing chemical weapons were obtained from firms in such countries as: the United States, West Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and China. The U.S. State Department, in the immediate aftermath of the incident, instructed its diplomats to say that Iran was partly to blame.

So what did the U.S. learn from all of this? I’ll let the following news articles speak for themselves:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/325981_moneyforarabs02.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/01/opinion/main3122492.shtml