"The gassing of Innocent civillians was known about during the Iran/Iraq war but who gives a fuq as long as the perpetrators of such an atrocity are on our side?"

Yea, yea, I know, and we also supported and continue to support bin Laden, plus other evil dictators. That is true.

In real life alliances and enemies change, it's fluid. There are plenty of evil dictators we're not doing anything about. As my president said, we will respond at a time and place of our chosing when we are threatened. And hey, if some poor soles living under the thumb of some bastard get liberated, all the better. Ask the Iraqis if all in all, considering the deaths and desctruction, tragic as they truly are, they are better off than they were under Saddam, my guess is they will say yes. Who are you to say they are wrong and that they should live in fear?