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richard perle |
"And some of our most serious mistakes have been to
cling longer than was necessary to temporary alliances, and
Saddam Hussein is one of them. He was the lesser of the evils
as this government saw it during the war between Iraq and Iran.
But there was no excuse for tilting toward Saddam Hussein for
a day longer than was absolutely necessary, and I regret to
say that wasn't the policy of the government at the time."
Richard
Perle, AEI seminar March 25, 2003 |
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Iranian Threat |
" The United States and other Western powers tilted towards
Iraq during its 1980-88 war with Iran, seeing it as a bulwark
against Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution...
The Iraqi official said secular Iraq could still play a balancing
role, but not if its own stability was undermined." Alistair
Lyon, Bangkok Post, 1998 |
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iran
iraq war - the U.S. tilt