A blast from the past

I stumbled across a website that has a picture of Donald Rumsfeld (yes our very own Donny!) shaking hands with Saddam Hussein at a meeting that took place in Baghdad in December of 1983. Here is a link to the picture, along with an article that talks about the meeting:

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0802-01.htm

Now before any of your conservatives get in a lather, I am not saying it was bad on Rumsfeld's part. It just shows that how someone how we consider an ally we later are fighting, and looking back, picking him as an ally just because he was at war with Iran was pretty short sighted. Not the first time its happened. You don't hear that much talk about it, but we actually supplied Bin Laden with weapons and aid when he was part of the Mujhadeen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. Small world huh? Again, no one could have forseen that I don't think, but still kind of eery don't you think?