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Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The U.S. Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984
The National Security Archive provides declassified documents on the United States-Iraqi relationship in the 1980s and includes a detailed historical essay. Links within the essay provide access to the documents, which are also described individually. Topics include oil, terrorism, the Iran-Iraq War, arms sales, and chemical warfare and weapons. People include Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan, George Shultz, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., William L. Eagleton, Jr., and Tariq Aziz.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

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