gambit
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You mean the Iraq/Iran War? Why do you have a problem with US in supporting Iraq in that conflict? The other petty despots in the region were in with US as well.What do you mean? It is no secret that the US supported Saddam in the First Gulf war? Rumsfeld met with him and they provided weapons and training.. google it, since that is common knowledge I'm to lazy to provide you with sources.
The US never denied it..
Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC]
We have never denied our involvement with Iraq. Why do you deny the fact that others in the region were also involved with Iraq? This alliance, political and military, is in principle no different than NATO or SEATO or other ad-hoc cooperatives in history when several neighbors banded together for mutual defense. Look at the recent African crisis for example...The Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] was established in an agreement concluded on 25 May 1981 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE. These countries declared that the GCC is established in view of the special relations between them, their similar political systems based on Islamic beliefs, joint destiny and common objectives. The GCC is a regional common market with a defense planning council as well. The geographic proximity of the these countries and their general adoption of free trade economic policies are factors that encouraged them to establish the GCC.
Based on their conviction about the connected nature of their security and that an aggression against any one of them is deemed an aggression against all of them, cooperation in the military field has received the attention of the GCC states. Such conviction stems from the facts of geopolitics and faith in one destiny. Moreover, the security challenges in an unstable regional environment, like the Gulf area, imposes on the GCC States coordination of their policies and mobilization of their capabilities.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was formed in 1981 to confront their security challenges collectively. The immediate objective was to protect themselves from the threat posed by the Iran-Iraq War and Iranian-inspired activist Islamism (also seen as fundamentalism). In a series of meetings, chiefs of staff and defense ministers of the gulf states developed plans for mutual defense and launched efforts to form a joint command and a joint defense network.
Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So why do you not condemn the GCC for supporting Iraq in the Iraq-Iran conflict? Was Donald Rumsfeld the only high level diplomat to shook hands with Saddam Hussein? At least we only shook hands, the other GCC diplomats probably kissed (yeeccchhh) Saddam Hussein.The Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group, or ECOMOG, was a West African multilateral armed force established by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). ECOMOG was a formal arrangement for separate armies to work together. Its backbone was Nigerian armed forces and financial resources, with sub-battalion strength units contributed by other ECOWAS members Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and others.