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In November 1983, Ronald Reagan removed Iraq from the U.S. government's official list of 'nations that support international terrorism.' The next month he sent Donald Rumsfeld to Baghdad bearing a personal letter for Saddam. Shortly thereafter, the United States made its intelligence in the Gulf available to Iraq on a regular basis, and set up direct links between the CIA and the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. The self-interested USA ignored evidence that Saddam was using chemical weapons on his Iranian enemies and his own citizens.

"Everything we did was checked with America," says an Iraqi General . "They knew our policy was to use chemical weapons on the Iranian army when they entered our territory. We told them that and they continued to help us."

What's new today? The USA still pretends to be the leader of the "free world" and champion of Human Rights, while still aggressively pursuing its own (mostly economic) self-interests.