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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (7622)	5/14/2004 7:54:43 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Whether or not that is all true, you make it clear that you don't think the U.S. should correct its own mistakes. Tsk, tsk. How arrogant, unrepentant, and hypocritical of you.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (7622)	5/17/2004 9:34:23 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"I wonder why the author said nothing about Rumsfeld going to Baghdad to shake hands with Saddam? About the providing of arms and military support to Iraq?" Well, if that's the best you can come up with after reading that article, then it sure seems the author pretty much got it right. As for Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam.... ....Rumsfeld, then President Ronald Reagan's special Middle East envoy (and a private citizen), was urged to tell Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz that the U.S. statement on chemical weapons, or CW, "was made strictly out of our strong opposition to the use of lethal and incapacitating CW, wherever it occurs," according to a cable to Rumsfeld from then-Secretary of State George P. Shultz..... ....When details of Rumsfeld's December trip came to light last year, the defense secretary told CNN that he had "cautioned" Saddam Hussein about the use of chemical weapons.... As for the US providing arms & military support to Saddam..... <font size=4> Where Iraq Purchased Weapons 1973-2002 The purpose of this post is to address one of the many mythical claims about the United States popularized by some Leftists who would have us believe that the United States is the cause of most of what is wrong with the world. The myth under examination here is the claim that the United States played an important role in arming Saddam Hussein..... Message 19622650