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That certainly absolves Sadam of the tens of thousands of murders committed by his government. That's a perfectly reasonable and sane take.

Hitler himself faced quite a few false accusations (e.g. even for crimes actually committed by the Soviets). Certainly that would mean that he did nothing wrong according to a troll like yourself?

>That certainly absolves

That was a strawman argument.

Really how so? Is that not what you were implying? Or what was your point exactly? Besides the claim that Sadam being not guilty of some small subset accusations targeting him somehow changes anything?

Just that atrocity propaganda is the modus operandi of the US and its protégés. We see it again and again.

Was it? The were perfectly fine with ignoring the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed by Saddam's government during the revolt they instigated in 1991 because they didn't want to get involved or remove him from power at the time.

Even in 2003 that wasn't anywhere close to being the primary reason.

> We see it again and again.

That doesn't change those facts...

Are you saying that Saddam didn't commit the atrocities that he did because US government said he did?

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