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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (13140)	10/19/2004 10:48:15 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) of 20773

In the real world, of course, the US State Dept put Iraq on its list of terror sponsoring states in 1979 when Saddam seized power and kept it there most of the time since. There was a brief warming period in the latter part of the Iran-Iraq war when the US worried about an Iranian victory but we still never came close to providing the support which his regular backers (Russia, China and France) did. US-Iraqi diplomatic ties had been broken in 1976 and were not renewed till Nov. '84. They were severed again in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. When Saddam invaded Iran, it was entirely his idea. As noted above, we didn't even have diplomatic ties to the nation at the time. He claimed Khuzistan province should really be Arab territory - coincidentally it holds most of Iran's oil reserves. Hussein asked for permission to punish Kuwait from the U.S. Ambassador and was given total assurance that the U.S. "had no opinion on Arab-on-Arab conflict" (Amb. April Glaspie in conference with Saddam Hussein, July 25, 1990.) Actually Saddam lied to Glaspie about his intentions in that conversation. He certainly didn't "ask for permission" to invade.

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