From: Gene McAloon 

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:58:02 -0600, David N. Barnett  wrote:

>On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:46:32 -0500, "Gary Britt"
> wrote in message :
>
>| Along with the Europeans.  The difference is we stopped, the French and
>| Germans didn't.  It was necessary to keep Saddam from being defeated by
>| Khomeini who, if he took over Iraq would have been more dangerous to the
>| world and the USA than Saddam.
>
>Please refresh my memory -- what was the origin, and the goal, of the
>conflict between Iran and Iraq?  Who started it?
>
>Were either of them actually trying to take over control of the other?

You are asking that of a man who never heard of Omar Khayyam and thinks
Palestinians and Iraqis are not Arabs, but Afghans might be?  I can only
wonder what he thinks Iranian are.

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