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"Yama" wrote:

I'm sorry, but you're just typing words and hoping someone will believe
you. If Hussein was in the pocket, or even vaguely influenced by, the
US, they would have never bought those billions of dollars in Soviet
equipment,

...which he paid with US money...

Nope.

That's why there's still a question of Iraq completely repudiating the
billions it owes Russia under the "odious debt" theory.

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