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Originally Posted by Binky Bainbridge  Long before Saddam invaded Kuwait, the US & the UK should have sent a strong message to him basically saying, "clean up your act or, (to use that quaint American phrase), we're come in and whip your ass!". |
You're wasting your fingers on this one Ms. Bainbridge.
However I do need to point out that during the Iraq-Iran war up to the invasion of Kuwait, and that includes the period when the Kurds were gassed, Iraq was an active buyer of American military hardware and overtly received other aid from the US.