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Russia and China are not the point. We were in a cold war with them for years, and no one questions the validity of that cold war against them.

My point was that Russian/China being communist was no guarantee of cooperation between the two any more than was the two Ba'athist regimes in Iraq/Syria.

My point is that a trade between Iraq & Syria...

My recollection is that is was the Jordanians who did much more to help evade oil-for-food restrictions on Saddam. And of course Europe and Asia were the customers and trading partners.

160 posted on 09/20/2007 5:14:20 AM PDT by George W. Bush (Apres moi, le deluge.)

To: George W. Bush

The cooperation between Saddam & Syria is a matter of history. Likewise the use of Iraqi oil to pursue Iraqi aims with the Syrian government.

164 posted on 09/20/2007 5:35:41 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)

To: George W. Bush

Mitch Rapp bump (truth is stranger than fiction)

179 posted on 09/20/2007 7:41:54 AM PDT by wordsofearnest (Thompson-Hunter not Hunter Thompson.)

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