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To: Solon who wrote (46188)	3/22/2006 8:10:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

your own dictionary reference refers to a "close association of nations"..."formed to advance common interests or causes". There was an association but not a close association. If any level of association makes for an ally than pretty much the whole world consists of our allies. Webster's also defines "ally" as "one that is associated with another as a helper". A pretty lousy definition. Again we help much of the world in one way or another. They aren't all our allies. If you define the term so broadly it isn't very meaningful.

To: Solon who wrote (46188)	4/7/2006 10:51:57 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The United States was NOT an ally of Iraq. Not even during the Iran-Iraq war. During the Iran-Iraq war, the United States sold equipment and material that COULD be converted to military use, by the Iraqis. During this same war, the United States sold (or allowed the sale of) actual American weapons to Iran. Care to explain how the sale of American wire-guided missiles to the Iranians helped the common interests of the United States and their Iraqi "allies"?