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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: jlallen who wrote (473084)	10/8/2003 3:30:50 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) of 769670

30 years ago? Get your facts straight... The Saddam in Rumsfeld’s Closet by Jeremy Scahill “Man and the turtle are very much alike. Neither makes any progress without sticking his neck out.” —Donald Rumsfeld Five years before Saddam Hussein’s now infamous 1988 gassing of the Kurds, a key meeting took place in Baghdad that would play a significant role in forging close ties between Saddam Hussein and Washington. It happened at a time when Saddam was first alleged to have used chemical weapons. The meeting in late December 1983 paved the way for an official restoration of relations between Iraq and the US, which had been severed since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. With the Iran-Iraq war escalating, President Ronald Reagan dispatched his Middle East envoy, a former secretary of defense, to Baghdad with a hand-written letter to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and a message that Washington was willing at any moment to resume diplomatic relations. That envoy was Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld’s December 19-20, 1983 visit to Baghdad made him the highest-ranking US official to visit Iraq in 6 years. He met Saddam and the two discussed “topics of mutual interest,” commondreams.org bartcop.com Aren't you glad we have the internet available, so that we can dig up what Neocons and the lapdog media want to hide? Del

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