And you made up that 'one thing'. If we did provide Saddam Hussein with 'weapons' then please explain to the readership why was the Iraqi military equipped with Soviet weapons. The uncomfortable truth here is that you are no different than others in merely repeating and propagating that belief without exercising an iota of logical thought process.
For Iraq, are you referring to our support of Iraq in the Iraq-Iran War? If so, then you should attempt to explain this...
Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC]
You talk as if making such odious alliances are the exceptions and not the norm. The uncomfortable truth was that Saudi's leadership among the GCC was undisputed and by extension in the ME as well. The country that literally gave Saddam Hussein approval, tacit permission, to go to war against Iran was Saudi Arabia, not US. When came Afghanistan, the GCC and Pakistan got involved with US as well.
Really? What do you call that decade of sanctions against Iraq while diplomacy was going on above the table and dirty oil deals were going between Iraq, Russia, China, France and Germany under the table. Once again the only thing you can do
ad nauseum repeat that belief that the US always prefer the military solution without providing a shred of evidence. The ME had war between Iraq and Iran, Iraq invaded Kuwait, the combined Arab armies against the Jews and lost twice, Lebanon was torn apart...But hey...It is US who
ALWAYS goes for the military solutions.