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To: combjelly who wrote (298067)	8/3/2006 7:00:41 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588216

Before the Shah was deposed, the Shah, viewed as an enemy by Iraq, was our closest ally in the Persian Gulf region. After Iran seemed to be prevailing in the Iran-Iraq war we provided limited aid to Iraq to prevent Iran from winning. That doesn't make Saddam our "buddy" or even an ally. Merely the lesser of two evils. Iraq was armed primarily by the Soviet Union, France, and China. Iraq broke off diplomatic relations in 1976. They were restored in 1984 and broken off again in 1990. Finally they were restored in 2004. Saddam felt close enough that he floated the idea of invading Kuwait in front of the first Bush administration and got an ambiguous response that he took as a go ahead. That's a lie. Saddam promised Glaspie he would seek a diplomatic solution to his conflict with Kuwait. The full text of Saddam's conversation Glaspie has been posted on the Foreign Affairs Discussion thread and it is clear Saddam lied to her. the neocons The first Bush administration were "realists" not neocons.