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To: tsigprofit who wrote (17474)6/4/2005 2:29:56 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (3) of 20773
 
I'm sorry but your comments on April Glaspie's talks with Saddam are incorrect. Saddam lied to her about his intentions to invade. She did not give him a green light to invade although leftwing sites lie about this an awful lot.

Saddam was a Soviet client state. I've posted several times on SI the %'s of his weaponry that came from various countries. The Soviet Union and its satellites were #1 by a long shot. France and China were second and third.

Rumsfeld handshake means about as much as similar handshakes to various Soviet and Chinese leaders.

During the Iran-Iraq war we sold Iraq a lot of grain, some helicopters, and gave them some satellite intel info - only because we didn't want the more extremist state of Iran under Khomeini to conquer Iraq - which was a risk then.

Have you bothered to read the text of UNSC Res 1546 which I posted to you?
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