Complement

Just to complement to the last posting with a few facts:
In 1982 Iraq was removed from the list of countries that supported terrorism.
In 19 december 1983 Ronald Reagan wrote to Saddam to upgrade relation with Iraq, establishing a US embassy in Bagdad. Reagan's emissary was none other then Donald Rumnsfeld.
US sold to Saddam chemical war weapons to be used against Iran. Iraq therefore was a precious ally in the war against Iran and Khomeini's revolution in the same way the northern alliance was used against the Taliban! Who knows if in the next decade we won't have a northern alliance terrorist abroad?
Saddam used mustard gas in Halabja in 1988, a city in northern Iraq inhabited mostly by Kurds. Nonetheless Bush senior didn't deny a payment of 500 million dollars to agricultural products. What is really going on is that Iraq then was central to the US international interests in the middle east, and for that was being manipulated for their interests. This just goes to prove my point that the US policy is not really all the stuff about defending democratic values and, their moral clarity, there in it just for a new kind of neocolonialism, a "neoneocolonialism", so to speak, where dominance over other countries is exerced not primarily by weapons but by culture and economicy through international institutions such the IMF and international banks.