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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (441674)	8/12/2003 11:47:51 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"On April 14, 1980—five months before Iraq’s invasion—Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s national security advisor, signaled U.S. willingness to work with Iraq: "We see no fundamental incompatibility of interests between the United States and Iraq." According to Abul Hassan Bani-Sadr, then Iran’s president, Brzezinski met directly with Saddam Hussein in Jordan two months before the Iraqi assault. Journalist Robert Parry reported that in a secret 1981 memo, Secretary of State Al Haig noted, "It was also interesting to confirm that President Carter gave the Iraqis a green light to launch the war against Iran through Fahd." Fahd was Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and is now king." finalcall.com "...This reprehensible behavior was similar to that of the Carter administration during September of 1980, when United States government officials gave Saddam Hussein the "green light" to invade Iran and thus commence the tragic Iraq-Iran War. A decade later, Saddam Hussein simply surmised that he had been given yet another "green light" by the United States government to commit overt aggression against surrounding states..." re:"http://www.jihadunspun.net/articles/10082002-International.War.Crimes/warcrimes3.html" It's speculation, but it didn't start from me. It comes from a journalist who claims he saw the documents.