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To: epicure who wrote (133873)	5/22/2004 2:05:47 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

From 1973-2002, the USSR provided 57.26% of Iraq's weapons. Add in China, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, and you've accounted for roughly 79% of Iraq's arms during Saddam's reign. France provided a majority of the rest. The US supplied exactly 00.46% of Iraq's arms during the period Saddam was in power. parapundit.com These basic facts are hard to square with a claim that Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years.. It is of course true that the US regarded Iran as a greater enemy than Saddam and provided satellite intelligence to Iraq to prevent an Iranian victory over Iraq. We also opposed the spread of communism into the mideast during the Cold War and supported some ruthless characters toward that end - Saddam probably was one of those briefly (before he came to power). Both of those policies are defendable given the other dangers in the world at the time. The UPI article is far from a fair and accurate view of relations between the US and Saddam. OK, that's an understatement. It's a misleading hack job ... mostly because of what it leaves out.