In article ,
"Yama" wrote:

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
om...
In article ,
"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.

Yes.

Nope. The transactions we had in the 1980s were all *Iraq* paying the
US.

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

Nobody said he paid *all* of it.

Or any of it, when you get right down to it.

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