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Originally posted by Undertoad
Those of you who bring up the fact that human rights is not part of the US equation, imagine what kind of government actively worked to save Saddam's ass just for the political opportunism of poking the US in the ribs and saving their own opportunistic oil contracts.
There's your treasured France and Germany.
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Or perhaps it was to discourage the reintroduction of the doctrine of preemptive war onto the world stage. Both countries have historical reasons not to want to see that again.