"More than a generation ago, secret intelligence suggested that political unrest in Cuba would produce armed support against Fidel Castro, an earlier object of regime change. ... The current war with Iraq has also had its share of faulty intelligence. ... But in October the CIA Director, George Tenet, suggested that Iraq did not pose an immediate threat to the United States and was unlikely to share its weapons with terrorists " unless provoked by an invasion."" ...

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Later in 1924, France wanted to get into producing oil so they developed the Compagnie Francaise des Petroles to develop it's share of Mesopotamia. During this period, Germany was stripped of all oil right and the three main super powers, who came out of Word War I victorious, shared out Iraqi oil amongst themselves. ... This gave a 23.75 percent share in holdings of the Iraq Petroleum Company to American companies. ... The United States decided to supply the Iraqis with intelligence, and committed the US Navy to safeguarding the flow of oil out of (and the flow of money and arms into...

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The fact was that at exactly the moment it invaded Panama because of its outrage over Noriega's abuses of human rights, the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China, noting that $300 million in business for US firms was at stake and that contacts had secretly resumed a few weeks after the Tiananmen Square massacre. ...

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They shared the vision of using long-range strategic bombers to strike deep into enemy territory so as to destroy both the enemy's means and will to resist.1 The theorists had, however, differing views on the conceptual deployment of air power. ...

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He had been working on building weapons of mass destruction since the 1970's, spending hundreds of billions of dollars to obtain them and forgoing billions more in oil revenues during the 1990's, because of sanctions opposed by the United Nations just to achieve his secret programs. ...

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