Article: For Years, United States Had Love-Hate Relationship with Iraq.

By John Dorschner, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 6--Iraq hasn't always been part of an axis of evil in American eyes.

Washington has cozied up to Iraq over the years, in part because of the country's massive oil deposits, in part because the United States and Iraq have shared enemies.

Indeed, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who is denouncing Saddam Hussein in daily news briefings, played a crucial role in establishing U.S. relations with Iraq when, as a private citizen, he met with the Iraqi dictator in 1983 at the behest of President Ronald Reagan.

The United States' love-hate relationship with ...

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