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To: Ilaine who wrote (18261)	5/10/2006 5:20:55 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) of 542430

I'm sure you remember the general ugliness over the Ayatollah Khomeni in the US- the T-shirts, the bumper stickers- it doesn't surprise me that he thinks we supported Iraq more than Iran. We did really support Iraq more than Iran (after the Shah's departure, of course). The Clandestine operation to support the contras was NOT something that anyone much approved of- that's one reason it was such a big deal. How could we sell weapons to Iran-- our big enemy? Iraq was not such a big enemy, and it wasn't the gassing of the Kurds that changed our foreign policy. I'm sure you don't mean to be revisionist, but implying that the gassing of the Kurds changed US foreign policy is revisionist. Geopolitical factors in the ME have been the drivers to everything we've done there- the Kurds haven't mattered a bit, except as pawns in the larger game. pbs.org We hung the Kurds out to dry. No one cared about the Kurds; not in Nixon's time, and not now. They make nice pawns though, don't they?

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