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

To: Geoff Altman who wrote (714428)	11/21/2005 4:31:49 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

WE were friendly with Saddam. There is photographic evidence that even Rumsfeld met with Saddam in the 70's. We propped up Saddam until such time he started taking us for granted and invaded Kuwait. I think, timing him out was the right thing to do. But then Clinton should have started to reestablish closer ties with Saddam on the condition that he abandon his ideas about "Kuwait being the 19th province". I am not sure if our diplomats during the Clinton Administration were in favor of that or not. Besides, the Jewish lobby in the US would have influenced that decision of keeping Saddam isolated. So my point of all this diatribe is that we could have moved to re-establish the links with Saddam and resume the cultural and educational exchanges with Iraq which were massive during the 70's and 80's. There were lots of Iraqis in my Graduate school in Mass. in the mid 70's. And it is the same with Bashar Assad. Bush and his army of diplomats need to take full advantage of the fact that Bashar is Western educated and that he should be kept in power to counterbalance the influence of the Islamic Jihad in Syria. And furthermore, play Syria against Iran (since Islamic Jihad is a Iranian proxy)