From: "fred White" <[log in to unmask]>
> I'll try. It appears that we were the only ones that provided
> assistance to Iraq during their war with Iran. Whether this was a good
> thing or a bad thing, I simply don't know. I would guess that most of
> the world's resentment of us is that we try to control so many nations
> all over the world.

Huh?  As has been mentioned before, the Soviet Union and France were Iraq's
main supporters, selling them billions of dollars worth of weapons, mainly
on credit.  There were thousand of Soviet military advisers in Iraq during
the Iran-Iraq war.

http://www.1upinfo.com/country-guide-study/iraq/iraq94.html
http://www.1upinfo.com/country-guide-study/iraq/iraq95.html

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