Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein

[Jara sang]

Ronald Reagan and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz meet at the White House on November 26, 1984, as the U.S. and Iraq restore diplomatic relations.


Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983.


http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/index.htm

A U.S. cable recording the December 20, 1983 conversation between Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein. Although Rumsfeld said during a September 21, 2002 CNN interview, "In that visit, I cautioned him about the use of chemical weapons, as a matter of fact, and discussed a host of other things," the document indicates there was no mention of chemical weapons. Rumsfeld did raise the issue in his subsequent meeting with Iraqi official Tariq Aziz.
National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 114 of November 26, 1983, "U.S. Policy toward the Iran-Iraq War," delineating U.S. priorities: the ability to project military force in the Persian Gulf and to protect oil supplies, without reference to chemical weapons or human rights concerns.

The 1984 public U.S. condemnation of chemical weapons use in the Iran-Iraq war, which said, referring to the Ayatollah Khomeini's refusal to agree to end hostilities until Saddam Hussein was ejected from power, "The United States finds the present Iranian regime's intransigent refusal to deviate from its avowed objective of eliminating the legitimate government of neighboring Iraq to be inconsistent with the accepted norms of behavior among nations and the moral and religious basis which it claims."

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Well, how else were they supposed to sell them

chemical weapons?

Duh.

[savemefromdumbya]

2. Just paste it on a billboard or two around your town

think up a suitable caption!

[Jara sang]

3. kick!

:kick:

[lpbk2713]

4. "We never met a murderous dictator we didn't like."

"Hey, kill all the people you want to as long as we get some profit out of it."

[BringEmOn]

5. Sodamn Insane meets Saddam Hussein

[Jara sang]

6. Kick because Aaron Spelling is getting more attention than this post.