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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (150701)	11/2/2004 8:31:20 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Saddam seized power in 1979. Not in 1958 or 1963 etc. The US did not have diplomatic relations with Iraq at the time. And it was put on the State Department's list of terror sponsoring nations in 1979 which means no arms sales, no dual use sales plus other economic sanctions. In the 1980's when Iran seemed to be winning the Iran-Iraq war, the US warmed up relations enough to provide some military support in hopes of preventing an Iranian victory. Total US military aid was still dwarved by that supplied by Russia, France, and China however. In fact, US military sales to Iraq over the entire last three decades are about on a par with the small nation of Denmark. It is highly misleading to present Iraq as a US puppet or client state. Russia, France, and China have been supplying Iraq on a massive basis for decades and a country can not simultaneously have been a client-state of these countries and a US puppet.

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