--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 10/22/06 8:52:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Like when a big comapany goes to a country upholds and even helps to > install or maintain a corrupt government then takes the oil and sells > and the people see nothing. > > For example that is what Suadi Arabia is, and Saddam was helped to > power by the CIA and supported by Reagan and Bush (that is where he > got the old WMD's from that were found there). The same is happening > in Nigeria right now. > > OffWorld > > > > Um Off, your showing your ignorance to us again. You're worse than an > exhibitionist No oil company has set up a government to do business > with. Saudi > Arabia was set up by the British government as most of the middle eastern > countries were. The CIA had nothing to do with Saddam taking power, if it > had > it would have been under Jimmy Carters administration. Certainly you don't > think a great American Leftist President would have done that would you? And > Reagan only used Iraq to keep Iran in check and as for WMD's being sold or > given to Iraq by the Reagan administration, show me. The only thing of > military > value given by Reagan to Saddam was military intelligence, satellite photos > of > Iranian troop movements so he could defend himself against Iranian attacks. >
The CIA's relationship with Saddam goes waay back. All the way to the failed 1958(?) coup attempt where he was a CIA-exploited assassin/thug. He had a much longer-lasting and closer relationship with the Soviets, however. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
