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(Denyav) wrote:

US, they would have never bought those billions of dollars in Soviet
equipment, they never would have invaded Kuwait, and they never would
have attacked Israel.

If Saddam were not in US pocket he would not kill Quasim and tens of thousands
of Iraqi communists and socialists in Qasr al Nehayat prison and Jim
Critchfield would not call his actions "a great victory"

Quoting Richard Sale, I see. Funny how this is all strongly denied by
the CIA. And it's really funny how someone who's "in our pocket" has
spent so much of his time the in last 40 years doing everything *except*
working in the interests of the US, and covered it all up by spending
billions on equipment from the USSR and Russia. And a US official
calling the deaths of thousands of Communists "a great victory" has
nothing to do with anything other than a bunch of dead enemies, no
matter who killed them.

Note that, with minor exceptions, everything you claim comes from two or
three unconfirmed articles from *one* writer... who's well known for
either writing about stuff everyone knows, or stuff nobody can confirm.

If Saddam were not in US pocket he would not attack Iran upon orders from his
boss.

Unless he was, of course, a murderous dictator armed by the Soviet
Union, who wanted some more land with oil in it.

If Saddam were not in US pocket,US ECM assets would not blind Iranian radars
for three days in row during Saddams ferocious 1988 al Fao attack.

Ah, more noise from Richard Sale. Never confirmed.

If Saddam were not in US pocket,DIA and CIA officials would not brief him
everyday during Iran-Iraq war.

No, they would have done that anyway, to do damage to Iran *and* Iraq,
who were both buying weapons from the USSR.

If Saddam were not in US pocket ,he would not pay attention to US
encouragements and would not invade Kuwait.

You mean, "if he weren't in Russia's pocket, he would not have ignored
the US discouragements and stayed home."

Without SH's magnificent service in 1990,US would probably never be able to
persuade Gulf states to allow large scale American presence in their countries
and US would fall behind UK,France and even Chinese as major arms supporter to
those states and most importantly Kissinger Plan would never be implemented.

"Probably." Funny. Except, of course, for the large presence in those
countries for a decade or two *before* 1990.

If Saddam were not in US pocket ,still secret deals between him and US would
not be made after 1991 war at the cost of Kurds and Schites.

So you can name some of those "secret deals," then, right?

Sure,he purchased lots of weapons from SU,this was the balancing act of every
dictators in Cold War era.

"Balancing act," eh? Interesting choice of words, there.

On the other hand, if Hussein ws influenced by the Soviets, they would
have acted, well, just like they did.

What the possible interest of SU in seizure of Arab Oil by US might
be?,As far as I know SU(Russia) itself is a major oil producer.

So you're claiming that our invasion of Iraq was a big plan on Hussein's
part to, er... your logic doesn't really work, here.

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