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President Ronnie Reagan meets with then Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz
in the Oval Office in 1984 as the two nations restore diplomatic relations.

Last I heard, Aziz was sweatin' bullets in the 125-degree heat, digging his own latrine as a prisoner of war.

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On August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops rolled across the border into neighboring Kuwait. The invasion prompted outrage and action from the White House where Iraq's President Saddam Hussein was reviled as a modern day Hitler, potentially more dangerous by virtue of his nuclear weapons ambitions. But Washington's view had not always been so negative....

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Praise for Iraqgate, 1980-1994

Photograph: Ronald Reagan and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz meet at the White House on November 26, 1984, as the U.S. and Iraq restore diplomatic relations.

Sample Document: A Top Secret Department of the Army memorandum describes a proposal to allow Iraq to buy U.S. military helicopters in exchange for intelligence information.

SOURCE w LINKS: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/iraqgate/iraqgate.html

Thanks, Gloria! I appreciate very much you caring about our nation's missing history and how it affects where we're heading.

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