From: "John Beamish" 

I read the Globe and Mail (a far from leftist paper) and the National Post
(a paper to which the word "leftist" is as applicable as it would
be to either Bush.)

But, more to the point, neither Russia nor France put Hussein in power.

"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
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> John,
>
> You are obviously brainwashed by leftist Canadian media. Ever seen a
> list of Iraq's top arms suppliers? Russia, France, were the top 3. The
> US total arms sales to Iraq over the few decades that Saddam was in
> power amounted to well less than one percent of the total. There 9 or 10
> countries ahead of the US on the list of Iraqi arms suppliers including
> some European countries besides France.
>
> Spouting leftist fantasies about the US being a big supporter of Hussein
> does not make these fantasies true.
>

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