[FreqSep]

Saddam Hussein did quite a bit more then just “challenge the bully”…

I suppose genocide of the Kurds is acceptable on the internet as long as your suitably anti-American while you do it. Those darn American imperialists!

[bigbillheck]

The US is perfectly fine with Kurdish genocide as long as it's Turkey doing it.

[DiogenesKynikos]

The US was also fine with Iraq doing it.

When Iraq gassed a Kurdish village in 1988, the US actually blocked condemnation of Iraq in the UN Security Council and tried to redirect blame towards Iran.

The US only started making a big deal of Iraq's attacks on the Kurds years later, when Iraq had gone from being an ally to an enemy.