Yeah we do this everywhere. We backed Pinochet in Peru; a cold blooded dictator who tortured people. We also sold arms to Iran at the same time we were "allies" with Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
Here is a classic; Rumsfeld in 1983 chumming it up with Saddam after selling Iraq the very chemical weapons they used on Iran and the Khurds.
YouTube - Rumsfeld shakes hands with Saddam (full video, no sound)
Like you said Perp....they just hate our freedom.
They are using the same rhetoric towards Iran that they used toward Iraq and the American people are buying it yet again. It must not happen!