Rumsfeld’s Handshake Deal With Saddam

Here is antother thing yet unmentioned by the mainstream media. Our once friendly relationship with the man we have now captured.
Boy, it sure seems as though the US has a long history of being fair weather friends to it's "partners"
Plus cest la chang, plus cest la memchose.(Sorry, don't know where to pull up the French punctuation marks)
By Norman Solomon
History out of media bounds
Christmas came 11 days early for Donald Rumsfeld two years ago when the news broke that American forces had pulled Saddam Hussein from a spidery hole. During interviews about the capture, on CBS and ABC, the Pentagon’s top man was upbeat. And he didn’t have to deal with a question that Lesley Stahl or Peter Jennings could have logically chosen to ask: “Secretary Rumsfeld, you met with Saddam almost exactly 20 years ago and shook his hand. What kind of guy was he?”