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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (8208)6/2/2004 12:56:17 AM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
You are simply wrong. The foreign policy of the United States was centered on protecting Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Any support that the United States gave to Saddam, during the Iran/Iraq war, was because Iraq was allied to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. This is why the United States placed Kuwaiti tankers under the American Flag during the "tanker war" phase of the Iran-Iraq War. Saddam knew this. When Saddam spoke to the Glaspie, the controversy was not whether or not Iran was going to invade Kuwait - but rather, whether or not Kuwait would forgive a $10 billion dollar war time loan to Iraq, and whether or not the Kuwaitis would cut back production from their side of an oil field that both countries shared.

It is also false that Iraq was a hedge against the Soviets. Iraq could best be described as a client state of the Soviets. For each dollar the Iraqis of spent on American military equipment, they purchased over $100 on Soviet (and other Warsaw Pact) equipment. Arms sales from France, China, and the Soviet Union (during the Iran-Iraq War) summed up to over $35 Billion. In contrast, U.S. arms sales to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war were slightly less than those from Denmark (slightly more than Switzerland) - $200 Million.
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