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To: hmaly who wrote (182738)	2/16/2004 12:55:53 AM
From: Buckwheat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

Reagan and Bush probably weren't the first to use Saddam. [On Aug. 5, 1980, as tensions mounted on the Iran-Iraq border, Saudi rulers welcomed Saddam to Riyadh for the first state visit ever by an Iraqi president to Saudi Arabia. During meetings at the kingdom’s ornate palaces, the Saudis feted Saddam whose formidable Soviet-supplied army was viewed as a bulwark against Iran. Saudi leaders also say they urged Saddam to take the fight to Iran’s fundamentalist regime, advice that they say included a “green light” for the invasion from President Carter. Less than two months after Saddam’s trip, with Carter still frustrated by his inability to win release of the 52 Americans imprisoned in Iran, Saddam invaded Iran on Sept. 22, 1980. The war would rage for eight years and kill an estimated one million people. The claim of Carter’s “green light” for the invasion was made by senior Arab leaders, including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, to President Reagan’s first secretary of state, Alexander Haig, when Haig traveled to the Middle East in April 1981, according to “top secret” talking points that Haig prepared for a post-trip briefing of Reagan.]

To: hmaly who wrote (182738)	2/16/2004 11:24:57 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

Your condemnation of just US exports, while ignoring the far more extensive exports of both France and Germany are hypocritical. Yes, the US did export some WMD items to Saddam. Both France and Germany did so on a larger scale yet you condemn only the Us. I condemn all three countries for what they did; however, as a US citizen, I can't control the actions of the German and French gov'ts but I can have a say in what this gov't does. That should be patently obvious to anyone but those like yourself who are on a crusade to make the US look like saints and the Germans the devil incarnate. Like I have said before, don't bother me with your neocon slander.