To be fair:

Submitted by Kattey (United States), Mar 19, 2008 at 17:28

Saudia Arabia was promised independence and their own country by the Brits in WW I, but this went by the wayside when the boundary lines in the ME were redrawn, and many people didn't get the country they were promised, including the Kurds.

The Brits were back in Iraq in WW II but were chased out by the people who had had enough interference from them. It's amazing Tony Blair agreed to join Bush in attacking Iraq in 2003, given the history of the Brits there. After the US contained Saddam in Iraq in the early 1990s, President H. W. Bush No. 1 told the Marsh Arabs (Shiites) in the south that the US would help them if they attacked Saddam. Another promise not kept which resulted in many Shiites murdered and their marshes (Garden of Eden?) drained. Not to mention the oil companies who took advantage of the ME when oil was first drilled.

So it's on both sides.

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