--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 4/14/06 1:58:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > jflanegi@ writes: > > > > Then after the Iranian revolution, we cozied up to Saddam and gave > > him whatever he wanted militarily, including poison gas, to use > > against Iran. > > > > > > > > Please, go into detail on this. I like the whatever he wanted > militarily, > > including poison gas part best. > > > > When Saddam broke away from the USSR by attacking Iran (another > Soviet Client State in the Middle East), he left an opportunity for > the US to exert greater influence in the region, so we turned a blind > eye to his use of WMDs and Congress changed the law to allow dual-use > chemicals to be sold to him. The CIA even went so far as to claim > that it was the Iranians who gassed the Kurds to keep Iraq off the > shit-lists as a terrorist nation. We also made sure that he had > access to soviet-compatible ammo from our allies. We sold him very > few weapons directly because all of his stuff was soviet-made, but we > made sure he had access to replacement parts and ammo. We even tried > to get him to buy from Israel, but he refused. > > Later on, the Soviets realized their mistake and repaired relations > with him.
..which brings us to the first Guld War. A rarely mentioned hard fact about this war is that what was fought was a war between Soviet arms and tactics and US arms and tactics. If Moscow had any illusions about world domination having been lost, this was the final proof to them that their volontary disbanding of their social experiment was a true blessing. Unless something happens with Iran, they may become the next testing ground.. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a recent statement: "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
