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Fri Mar 22, 2013, 08:02 AM Mar 2013

America's 33 Years Of Failure In Iraq [PHOTOS]

http://www.businessinsider.com/timeline-of-americas-33-year-love-affair-with-saddam-and-iraq-2013-3?op=1

America's rocky relationship with Iraq didn't start 10 years ago with the beginning of the war that would eventually oust Saddam Hussein.

It didn't even start in 1990, following Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.

In fact, the two countries began their modern relationship some 33 years ago, becoming entangled due to a violently deposed Persian Monarch and Washington's push to rein in an intransigent Iran.

The year was 1980. America had just lost a key Middle Eastern ally in the Iranian Revolution.


Meanwhile Iranian calls for a Shia-led-coup in iraq led to rising tensions and border skirmishes.


Despite widespread reports of Iraqi chemical weapons use, Reagan pulled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein off the list of known terrorists in 1982.


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