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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (117646)	10/25/2003 12:59:30 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Continuing through the 1960s, when the CIA provided the Baathists with lists of Communists and Nasserite PanArabists to Disappear. Oh come one now... Nasser was on the CIA payroll too... But then he decided the Russians paid better.... :0) And that's apparently what Saddam thought as well... And the Russians liked the relationship as well, given all the weapons they sold to him... I mean, why not just think a little bit Jacob before making your inane statements. If Saddam had been so "favored" as you allege, his army would have been outfitted with US built military equipment, not Russian. Now if you want to discuss the Shah, THEN I would have to concur that HE was "in favor" with the US. And finally, can you tell us what the Russians, French, and British were doing at this time? Do you think they were just sitting on their @sses doing nothing?? Everyone vies for influence around the world, often using their intelligence agencies to do so. And any nation that FAILS to do it, has essentially surrendered to his rivals. Politics, like Nature, abhors a vacuum and will seek to fill it with some replacement immediately. Hawk