1.0 link 4516 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nellie-b/it-really-is-about-oil_b_4516.html Certainly one of the great ironies of our current military escapade is how Iraq and Iran are cozying up philosophically and economically, if not necessarily militarily, given how much the US backed Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war. There was remarkably little US coverage of Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's visit to Iran and apology for Saddam's war crimes (the New York Times really buried it; scroll down to the last few paragraphs). And, outside of a...

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