Re:New evidence that Nixon sabotaged 1968 Vietnam peace deal
by CalChris on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:57PM
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> The US and Iraq were most decidedly not allies then.
Actually, the US and Iraq were allies until Iraq invaded Kuwait. Ambassador April Glaspie.
We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as
your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me
to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the
1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with
America.
Until after the Kuwait invasion and until after Thatcher lent H some of her testicles, yeah, Reagan and Bush were Iraqi allies.
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Re:New evidence that Nixon sabotaged 1968 Vietnam peace deal
by maxq on Sunday January 01, 2017 @04:54PM
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Good catch - so, clearly it was a joke or an expression of cynical acceptance; nukes were never an option
Re:New evidence that Nixon sabotaged 1968 Vietnam peace deal
by quirkafleeg on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:34PM
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Another joke about nuking another country?
as defense secretary for the elder Mr. Bush,
Mr. Cheney commissioned a study of how many
tactical nuclear weapons would be needed to
take out an Iraqi Republican Guard division,
if necessary.
(The answer: 17.)
"A decade before 9/11" was 1991, which saw the Persian Gulf War. The US and Iraq were most decidedly not allies then.