Rumsfeld Handshake Proves Popular

Friday, September 8th, 2006 by bill

From Wall Street Journal
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With Defense Secretary Rumsfeld making appeasement the big buzzword of the month, the George Washington University’s National Security Archive notes that its single most-downloaded file is now the once-classified batch of documents, photos and video documenting Rumsfeld’s handshake and meeting with Saddam Hussein in December 1983. President Reagan had sent Rumsfeld to Baghdad to help restore diplomatic ties with Iraq and aid Baghdad in its fight against Iran.

Rumsfeld meeting Saddam has now far outpaced the previous winner, which was Elvis meeting Nixon, says Thomas Blanton, director of the archive, which collects and posts significant declassified documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

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  • Nothing to see here, just a couple of fascists getting acquainted, gripping and grinning. Hard to tell which one’s slumming

    Comment by bill | September 8, 2006

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