Sis HR: Tenks fi di last article. YG touched on this in a post and I just want highlight some hexcerps of it fi PC: for mi know si im ongle read wha come from FOX.

The US warmly courted Saddam in the 1980s as a potential ally and an Arab bulwark against the anti-American Iranian Islamic regime of Ayatollah Khomeini. Americans who, at the time, pushed for close links with Saddam's regime include Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.In the Reagan administration, Cheney was Pentagon secretary and Rumsfeld a senior adviser to the Pentagon. It was Rumsfeld who met Saddam in 1983 to deliver a message of goodwill from President Reagan.
The 1980s was the golden age in the Iraqi dictator's relations with Washington. He received much US technological and military assistance. The Reagan administration also actively helped him develop chemical and biological weapons, as indicated last year by Edward Pick, the US ambassador to Iraq at the time.When Saddam used chemical weapons against the Iraqi Kurdish population in 1988, as well as in the Iraq-Iran war against the Iranian forces during the same period, Reagan and his vice-president, George Bush snr, maintained a conspicuous silence. In a public trial, Saddam will be able to provide a lot more details on all this that could backfire on the administration of George Bush jnr.
President Bush may yet wish Saddam had been killed rather than captured alive.

RC: Don't you think that in light of the arguments presented in this article, Howard Dean may have some ammunition to prove how two-faced this administration has been with regard to Saddam, and that in fact the idea of 'liberation' of the Iraqis was just thrown into the oil conquering mix?

With regard to your Busha joke and the JLP: Walk off and gwey!:D