were talking about allowing Sodom to torture his people in exchange for oil contracts (thus my rather snide "blood for oil" comment, there....).
We were allied with him while the worst of the atrocities happened. That's what I was trying to point out. We did allow him to get away with killing his people, until he moved in on our friends in Kuwait. (And Saudi, which we know has ties to Al-Queda. Now that is "blood-for-Oil") By the way, I don't agree with the whole blood for oil refrain, I find it rather simplistic.