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

To: AK2004 who wrote (513789)	12/21/2003 2:19:20 PM
From: Red Heeler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

No, but I know who is upset at Saddam's capture;-) Saddam to portray America as accomplice Weapons of mass destruction and human rights? Past U.S. governments embraced Saddam for oil and for their own strategic purposes even as his armies were using chemical weapons against Iranians and his own people. According to declassified U.S. documents, Donald Rumsfeld, a special envoy under President Ronald Reagan, visited Saddam in Baghdad in 1983 but made no mention of chemical weapons, despite his insistence to the contrary last year in a CNN interview. In 1990, Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) told Saddam that he sympathized with his complaints that the Western media were exaggerating his mass murders. Threatening his neighbors? Days before Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the U.S. ambassador, April Glaspie, met with Saddam as he was massing forces along the Kuwaiti border. She told him James Baker, secretary of state in the first Bush administration, wanted to make it clear that the United States took no position on Arab-Arab disputes such as his border dispute with Kuwait. ajc.com