Word: iraq
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...Attorney General William Barr's actions involving Iraqgate--including his denial of a Congressional request for a special prosecutor--are only the latest evidence for that. So is the Central Intelligence Agency, having admitting to lying to Congress and a federal court about the use of taxpayer money in Iraq's pre-war military build...
CRITICS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRAtion call the affair "Iraqgate." The Administration's defenders call it a "witch hunt." Others call it a confusing mess. But whatever the term, the overeager attempts by the Reagan and Bush administrations to make friends with Iraq in the years before the Persian Gulf War -- and later attempts to contain the political damage of that failed policy -- have become yet another problem for George Bush as he struggles against increasingly heavy odds to win a second term...
...General William P. Barr announced that he had asked retired federal Judge Frederick B. Lacey of New Jersey to investigate the Justice Department's handling of the case against an Italian bank, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose Atlanta branch provided $4 billion in illegal loans and loan guarantees to Iraq. In the meantime the CIA continues to turn over new files, including one report that U.S. and Italian officials had accepted bribes in the B.N.L. case...
...seeds of the affair were sown back in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war, when President Reagan approved a "tilt" to Iraq as part of a campaign to keep either side from dominating the Persian Gulf region. That same year, the Reagan Administration scratched Iraq from its list of countries supporting terrorism and, in 1984, for the first time in 17 years, extended full diplomatic recognition to Saddam Hussein's Baghdad government. During the '80s, the U.S. guaranteed billions of dollars in commodity credits and loans to Iraq, while the CIA began secretly sharing intelligence information with Saddam...
Today, Bush risks a repeat of the Iraq failure with his support of another dictator, Syrian leader Hafez Assad. Even after the Gulf War, Hussein himself (a man Bush called "worse" than Adolf Hitler) remains strong. What's worse, Bush has allowed thousands of Kurds and Shiites to die at the dictator's hands...