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Article #545153Re: Is global leadership a matter of military strength?
From: Peter Webb
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:03
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:03
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"B'inyamin Cramer" <noyidinsight@notayidhere.cam> wrote in message news:19Sdnbw7RrtIjibYnZ2dnUVZ_hmtnZ2d@giganews.com... > > "Peter Webb" <webbfamily...@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message > news:45bb06a4$0$5748$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... >>>>>>>> The USA did not provide any material support to Iraq during the >>>>>>>> Iran Iraq war, and never supported Saddam. They didn't even >>>>>>>> recognise him as the leader of Iraq or his regime as the legitimate >>>>>>>> government of Iraq (unlike almost every other country). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What the fuck? Are you for real? Are you serious? >>>>>> >>>>>> Of course. Israel and the US supplied weapons to Iran; they supplied >>>>>> none at all to Iraq. You have it backwards. Learn a little history. >>>>> >>>>> Horsefuckingshit I've got it backward, you dopey cunt. >>>>> >>>>> What the fuck to you think Rumsfeld was doing in Iraq, shaking the >>>>> hand of Saddam over. >> >> I don't know; nether Saddam nor Rumsfeld have ever disclosed what was >> discussed. My guess is that Rumsfeld was telling Saddam that the US would >> not allow Westinghouse (a US company) to supply a nuclear reactor to Iran >> (the US refused to supply an export certificate, so Saddam bought off the >> French who had no such moral quibbles). >> >> Of course, it could have been almost anything else - Iraq's human rights >> record, an attempt at a diplomatic resolution of the Iraq/Iran war, or a >> billion other things. >> >> It certainly wasn't the US supplying weapons to Saddam, because they >> didn't. > > Oh yes they did. OK, what weapon or weapons did the US sell to Saddam?
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