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To: Alighieri who wrote (192046)	6/28/2004 2:12:13 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577911

How Reagan Armed Saddam with Chemical Weapons By NORM DIXON On August 18, 2002, the New York Times carried a front-page story headlined, "Officers say U.S. aided Iraq despite the use of gas". Quoting anonymous US "senior military officers", the NYT "revealed" that in the 1980s, the administration of US President Ronald Reagan covertly provided "critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war". The story made a brief splash in the international media, then died. Its no use.......Reagan was an icon. There's a disconnect between the reality and their fantasy. Therefore, Reagan could never have done these bad things. They like the smoke and mirrors. You would think RR Jr.'s hatred of all things right and the general mess among the Reagan progeny would tell them something about RR, the man and the father......but no, he's still a saint! ted

To: Alighieri who wrote (192046)	6/28/2004 2:23:14 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577911

<font color=brown>Oops.........doesn't Blair know Bush has an election to win?!! <font color=black> ***************************************************** Blair disputes Bush over Iraq Mon 28 June, 2004 18:10 By Adam Entous ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair says the Western rift over Iraq is not over, disputing a central message of U.S. President George W. Bush's fence-mending mission to Europe. "There's no point in us standing here and saying, 'You know, all the previous disagreements have disappeared.' They haven't," Blair said with Bush at his side on Monday. Blair's comments directly contradicted Bush's after a summit with European Union leaders in Ireland last weekend. "The bitter differences of the war are over," Bush had confidently declared. Many European states, including France and Germany, opposed last year's invasion of Iraq.** Bush and Blair, the two closest allies in the war in Iraq, appeared together on the sidelines of a NATO summit to celebrate the surprise early handover of power from the U.S.-led coalition to the Iraqi interim government. Blair acknowledged that the United States and Britain have been unable to "overcome the disagreement there was (with opponents of the war) about whether the conflict was justified." "Our honest belief is that the world will be a safer place if we're able to make this work. And I don't know whether we convinced people of this or not," Blair said. French President Jacques Chirac underlined lingering tension on Monday by opposing a formal role for NATO inside Iraq just hours after the alliance agreed to help train the Baghdad government's security forces. WHAT PROGRESS? Blair said progress has been made in repairing strained ties, citing passage this month of a United Nations resolution and NATO's plans to help train Iraqi soldiers. "In that sense, I think, the international community has come together, and I welcome it," Blair said. Bush also appeared to back away from his upbeat assessment in Ireland, telling reporters in Istanbul: "My sense is that there's a hope that we succeed, with all the nations sitting around the table. Everyone understands the stakes." Bush's second trip this month to Europe has been dogged from the start by protests. In Ireland, they delayed his farewell press conference by 30 minutes while during Monday's opening day of the NATO summit protesters hurling paving stones and petrol bombs clashed with riot police in Istanbul leaving around 30 people injured. The violence was well away from the venue for the two-day gathering, which is ringed by a tight security cordon. In private talks and in a joint U.S.-EU statement, European leaders also made clear their disquiet over both the detention of terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the U.S. military abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail. Bush has played down the importance of public opinion abroad. When asked on Saturday about his poor standing in Europe, Bush shot back that the polls he most cared about were the ones to pick a U.S. president in November. reuters.co.uk