One of the most bizarre anti-war claims is that Sadaam was a secular ruler and could not expect to make peace with the Islamic terrorists and work with them. The Iranian War with Sadaam is cited as proof that the Baath party and Persian theocracy could never work together.
As we now can see hatred of the US and Israel unites all parties amongst the Evil Middle East Regimes.
Read the following from today’s news:
Iran warned its arch-enemy Israel of “unimaginable losses” if it attacks Syria and vowed that it was standing by the Syrian people.
“We hope the Zionist regime does not make the mistake of attacking Syria, because extending the front would definitely make the Zionist regime face unimaginable losses,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
Of course, even our friends, such as they are, in the Middle East are not so reconstructed that they will support Israel’s right of self-defense. This basic irrationality, one of the main road blocks to peace, can be cured. . . as we proved in German reconstruction after World War II, but it will take time. If our friends in Iraq cannot think straight regarding Israel, what about those who make anti-Semite rhetoric their chief international vocabulary?
In the majority of Middle East states hatred of Israel and the US is a deliberate policy of failed states to distract the people from their failures, it flourishes without check.
Does anyone doubt that a Sadaam with millions in Food for Oil money, some old WMD, and tons of conventional weapons would not be helping Islamic terrorists?
You cannot doubt it now since the last Baathist regime in the area is now getting support from the main (non-Arab at that!) theocracy. Religious Iran supports secular Syria and is giving arms and men to the terrorists that are at war with both Israel and the US. Hatred of the US and Israel trumps any other consideration. Aren’t you glad (we know Israel is) that there is not also a mad Sadaam adding armed support?