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Promoting Militant Islam Abroad: U.S. Policy Blunders
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Promoting Militant Islam Abroad: U.S. Policy Blunders

On December 19, 1983, a special envoy from President Ronald Reagan stepped off the plane in Baghdad with a handwritten letter from the President to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.  The letter informed Saddam that Washington was prepared to support Iraq in her war with Iran.  The envoy was Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld spent another day in...