You can either vote, or starve. Takes the term “Vote or Die” to a new level: Democracy and food!

The United States financed Saddam Hussein and his regime to counter the Iranian threat during the late 70’s and early 80’s. Even with complete knowledge that Iraq possessed biological and chemical weapons. The reason why the United States put Saddam in power, was because the original dictator of Iraq was Pro-Soviet, and any ability for the Soviet Union to aquire the oil from the area, would have kept the Soviet Union alive for longer, so the United States did what they always did, remove the regime sympathetic to the communist cause, and place an oppressive anti-communist into power. All this occured in the 1960’s, before the Iran and Iraq crisis.
American backed coup

The US helped Iraq go to war with Iran, because of their hostilities towards the United States, and in particular, Israel. Another reason was because of the American embassy hostage crisis which occured in late 1979. BUT during the 1980’s, with Lebanon going through a civil war, and many westerners being kidnapped (mainly Americans), the Regan administration brokered a covert deal with Iran (Congress passed a law which Banned any weapsons sales to Iran, because they aided and funded terrorism) in order to quell the kidnappings by an Iranian funded militant group in Lebanon called “Hezbollah“. The Iran-Iraq war ended in a stalemate.
Terrorism against Americans

The Iranian government is led predominantly by Shiites (A sect of the Islamic religion, something like how Catholicism and Protestantism, are sects of Christianity.)
And this group isn’t very friendly to the American presence in Iraq, so with the ousting of the Sunni (the other sect) leader Saddam, and turning a SECULAR (non-religiously based government) Iraq, into another Iran, the United States is bound to fall into another pit like it did back in the 1970’s and 80’s with Iran. If you don’t believe that Iraq was secular, then you should read up about the Ba’ath party, to understand that it was, and also Tariq Aziz who is a Christian and was one of Husseins closest advisors.
From Secular to Shia

Remember though, in the 80’s the Iraqi government used biological weapons against the minority Kurds in the north, becuase they were suspected of siding with the Iranians during the Iran-Iraq conflict. Not from what many believe was some kind of anger by Hussein’s government towards the Kurds, in fact, the Kurds were given limited autonomy, and were even allowed to hold some high-level offices, but because of their suspected ties with the Iranians during the conflict, they fell out of favour with the government, and became a threat to the country, so they were almost exterminated by biological weapons. Weapons which the United States knew that Iraq possessed, and even funded Iraqi war efforts, so basically, the United States funded for Iraq to have WMD, and biological weapons.

So this threat was created by the United States themselves, because of their meddling with Middle Eastern countries over the past 30-40 years. There are a lot of other connections as well, which all amount to the greater picture of containing the Soviet threat during the cold war.
American foreign policy during the Cold War years is largely responsible for why the Middle East is so unstable today.

Other factors include:

1. The Suez Canal crisis of 1956.
2. The wars involving Israel (and even the formation of Israel):
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War “The Independence War” (see also: 1949 Armistice Agreements)
• 1956 Suez War “Operation Kadesh” מבצע קדש או מלחמת סיני
• 1967 Six Day War מלחמת ששת הימים
• 1970 War of Attrition מלחמת ההתשה
• 1973 Yom Kippur War מלחמת יום כיפור
• 1982 Lebanon War “Operation Peace For Galilee” מבצע שלום הגליל
• 1990/1 Gulf Warמלחמת המפרץ
3. The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970’s, which the United States funded a group called the Mujahideen.
   The group eventually became a more world renowned group which we all know called Al-Qaeda. Remember now, these people used to be friendly to the United States, but after the US turned their back on them and the people, which then hostilities came out of it. (This is for another time though.)

These are just some of the conflicts that aided in destablizing the Middle East, and turning it into the problem which it is today.
This is not a partisan rant, this is written by facts, based upon historical events which occured in the past 50+ years.
It is to show people who don’t understand why these events are happening in the world today, and give them an idea.
This is only a small chunk of it, because there is a lot more behind what is happening in the Middle East than any government wants their people to know.

What you reap, is what you sow.

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