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[Midpress (Middle East News)] The Reagan administration further increased its involvement by declaring on April 29th that it would protect non-Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf as well, which in effect amounted to a further tilt in favor of Iraq since the new US policy allowed Saddam Hussein to continue Iraqs attacks on tankers without fear of concomitant attacks on vessels supporting Iraq’s allies. This onlyreinforced Iran’s belief that the United States was now a belligerent in the Iran - Iraq War.
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[getbud.com] 9-22-1980: Iran-Iraq War Starts: When their discussion turned to the Iran-Iraq war, Aziz said that his country was satisfied that “the U.S. analysis of the war’s threat to regional stability is ‘in agreement in principle’ with Iraq’s,”
[Israpundit] Iran like Iraq: These were the words of President Clinton on the night of December 16, 1998 as he announced a four-day bombing campaign over Iraq. Only six weeks earlier, Clinton had signed the Iraq Liberation Act authorizing Saddams overthrow”an initiative supported unanimously in the Senate and by a margin of 360 to 38 in the House.
[Wired: Danger Room] Army Anthropologist's Controversial Culture Clash: Gates: Human Terrain Teams Going Through 'Growing Pains' * In Iraq, Psyops Team Plays on Iran Fears, Soccer Love * How Technology Almost Lost the War * Pentagon's 'Know the Enemy' Task Force * Intel Geek Squad Targets Culture, Language .
[Palestine Think Tank] Ron Andreas - Militant Zionism and the Invasion of Iraq and Ismael ...: Major oil companies, along with many other non-military transnational corporations, have lobbied both the Clinton and Bush administrations in support of changing the aggressive, militaristic U.S. policy toward countries like Iran, Iraq and Libya in favor of establishing normal, non-confrontational trade and diplomatic relations. Such efforts at normalization of trade and diplomatic relations, however, have failed time and again precisely because Wolfowitz and his cohorts, working through AIPAC and other war-mongering think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Project for the New American Century (PNAC), and Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) oppose them.
[Mcs Political Bits/Thoughts] Sarah Palin, Anti-Iran Rally Part Two: Misguided implementation and understanding of human rights policies not only indirectly led to overthow of the Shah of Iran, but it paved the way for the loss of over a half million lives, Iran’s rule by Ayatollahs, the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and Desert Storm, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, who as we know was the mastermind behind America’s darkest day on September 11, 2001 when 3,000 lives were lost in terrorist attacks that took down the World Trade Center towers in New York and Pentagon in Washington.
[HYPERCRYPTON] Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President: The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
[Philadelphia Independent Media Center - Passionate and Accurate Tellings of Truth] US, NATO ET AL: QUESTION OF PALESTINE, IRAN, NORTH KOREA, NIGER ...: President of America, NATO, Prime Minister of UK and their allies not apply military action in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, etc. For example, when they ignored our advise and proceeded to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and after the overthrow of these governments, we listed all the ethnic, social, economic, political, and religious groups and past leaders, politicians, lawmakers, in these countries and advised Mr.
[Mcs Political Bits/Thoughts] Sarah Palin and Anti-Iran Rally: A Bigger Issue Than Politics: If Iran abandons its nulcear program and support for terrorism, we will offer incentives like membership in the World Trade Organization, economic investments, and a move torward normal diplomatic relations. If Iran continues its troubling behavior, we will step up our political and economic pressure to isolate Iran.
[SWJ Blog] 23 September SWJ Roundup: The theme would be applying these ideas to conflict in the post-Iraq era, and more specifically to the types of diffused, networked, “open source” armed conflicts that some have called “fifth generation warfare.” We are also interested in exploring solutions, such as the role of “resilient communities” (RC), for countering them. As Oil and food prices have climbed and the mortgage crisis has grown, the need to think more about Resilient Communities has become more urgent.
[Aleksandrakristina's Weblog] Who Stole The Moon?: In February and March 2003, Primakov visited Iraq and talked with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, as a special representative of President Vladimir Putin. He brought to Baghdad a message from Putin to call for Saddam to resign voluntarily.
[SWJ Blog] 21 September SWJ Roundup: But he also warned that Pakistan would not abide further American military incursions into the border areas. “We will not tolerate the violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity by any power in the name of combating terrorism,” he said in a comment that was broadly greeted by legislators, who loudly thumped on their desks to show their support.
[Syria Comment] Syria Comment Returns + News Roundup: Albright added that the issue is more serious because the war in Iraq has strengthened Iran. She also said the US has an inaccurate view of Iranian society, saying, “ Ahmadinejad is not particularly popular, .
[SWJ Blog] 18 September SWJ Roundup: A federal grand jury in Miami has indicted 16 foreign individuals and companies in a broad conspiracy to send restricted dual-purpose US electronics and other items to Iran for use in roadside bombs against US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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