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...grain ($500 million worth were extended the next month) and technology. His rationale: Iraq had the region's largest army, second largest oil reserves, ties to Moscow that would be nice to weaken and big ambitions to be a local power. The U.S. wanted some influence -- and some export sales...
...responded by publicly calling Iraq's human rights practices "abysmal." Some officials wanted to do more and proposed putting Iraq back on the terrorist list. Officials prepared to tighten export controls and canceled another $500 million in commodity export credits because the Iraqi program was tainted by fraud. But Baghdad was still repaying its loans, and senior officials figured any harsh sanctions would only intensify Saddam's paranoia about U.S. intentions. Just days before the invasion, Bush continued to oppose restrictions proposed by Congress...
Administration officials say there was little they would have done differently. The U.S. was giving Iraq agricultural export credits that helped American farmers. Saddam's Arab neighbors and many European countries were advising Washington to be nice to Iraq and would have resisted, out of fear or Arab solidarity, any drive toward containment. The U.S. did not sell arms directly to Iraq. The dual-use equipment sold by the U.S. was not cutting-edge technology but rather more generic items and processes that could have been bought in 10 other countries...
Bush said in South Dakota that he wants a multibillion-dollar grain export initiative for American farmers even though it would complicate the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and ignore the one thing we thought Bush did believe in--free trade...
...name, and don't get it confused with Ravi Shankar's greatest hits: ragga. It sounds like reggae on mega-vitamins, bulked-up and bass-pummeled, and it has its origins both in the Caribbean and in an aggressive black awareness. The music is punchy, insinuating and prime for export. Those dreadlocks in Tokyo may stay stylish a while longer...