[aristeides]

The connection may have occurred during the presidency of JFK, but if the connection was with the CIA, I'm not sure I would call it a Kennedy connection.

[MonroeDNA]

He was scared of communists.

He caved on Cuba, too, bigtime.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[yooper]

"Saddam was immediately assigned to the job of Head of the Al-Jihaz al-Khas (more popularly known as Jihaz Haneen), the clandestine Ba’athist Intelligence organisation - and, as such, he was soon after involved in the killing of some five thousand communists."

See? Everyone has their good points....

[Diddley]

Mark for later read.

[gaspar]

Cap Weinberger is right, and he should do more to publicize the fact that the only instance that the Left can find of so-called US support for Iraq's chemical war program was the shipment of Zirconium to a Chilean arms manufacturer through a Teledyne subsidiary in the USA. The soviets provided direct assistance, and a British firm actually helped build a factory in Iraq. Regardless, the real heavy of the piece was in the nineteen eighties, and remains today, Saddam Hussein.