... since 1979. He has used murder and aggression to retain powers, and has led Iraq into two disastrous wars. Hussein has spent billions of dollars to acquire biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons and appeared to successfully hidden equipment and materials to build these ... In order to preserve his regime, he signed an unconditional surrender. We agreed not to overthrow Saddam Hussein, but in return, we imposed a long list of requirements on Iraq. For twelve years he has tried every trick in the book to fool the world, but there is no doubt that he failed ... United States today is in...

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... developed the Compagnie Francaise des Petroles to develop it's share of Mesopotamia. During this period, Germany was stripped of all oil right and the three main super powers, who came out of Word War I victorious, shared out Iraqi oil amongst themselves. These three super powers were France, Britain, and the United States. Iraq was ... to the region. The United States decided to supply the Iraqis with intelligence, and committed the US Navy to safeguarding the flow of oil out of (and the flow of money and arms into) Iraq, but secretly sold arms to Iran in order to fund anti-Communist r...

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Recently, the US House of Representatives approved a war powers measure giving Bush the opportunity to invade Iraq. Although Bush has offered various arguments supporting an invasion, the actual history of US-Iraqi dealings speaks of certain hipocrocy to some people regarding the current US war plans. Iraq was at war with Iran for much of the 1980's. During that time, the US was clearly in support ... . In 1984, the US restored diplomatic relations with the Iraqi government and removed Iraq from the list of "terrorist nations". Several times during that decade, the US authorized sales of attac...

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