These were precisely the arguments made by Iraq-war advocates.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- While the war in Iraq may not have been about oil, post-war Iraq will almost certainly be shaped by it.
Mr Mousavi served as prime minister during the years of the Iran-Iraq war from 1980-1988.
The Geneva Convention banning the use of chemical weapons by states has been on the books since 1925 and has been violated repeatedly, most notably of late by Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Blowing Smoke About Making Deadly Gas
Moussavi himself has quite a number of nasty skeletons in his closet from his years as the prime minister during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), with his brutal suppression of dissident movements, ideological purging of the universities and so on.
When the Iraq-Iran War broke out in 1980, some 3, 000 workers on the project had to be evacuated overnight.
How he interact with General Douglas Lute, the Iraq-Afghanistan war czar - to use the phrase - who has been skeptical in the past?
MOSCOW, Russia -- Iraq remained a stumbling block in talks designed to restore pre-Iraq war relations between Moscow and Washington.
Speaking to a black religious group Wednesday in Miami, Florida, Dean -- an outspoken critic of the Iraq war -- raised the question of whether money spent on the conflict would have been better spent on flood-control projects in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sayyed Hassan Firouzabadi, chief of Iran's Joint Armed Forces, said Iranian soldiers were willing to die as they did in the brutal eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, according to the state-run Fars News Agency.
CNN: Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general says
The war in Iraq - clearly people who were concerned about the war in Iraq voted strongly against Republican candidates.
But Iraq never accounted for all the 100, 000 chemical weapons it produced for use in the Iran-Iraq war, and there are fears that thousands of them, filled with either deadly VX or mustard gas, could be squirreled away.
Russia -- which opposed the U.S.-led war on Iraq -- on Friday urged the coalition to give an early account of the WMD search.
In 1987, Gangel covered the Iran-Iraq war as part of the Pentagon pool in the Persian Gulf.
In its handling of the Iran-Iraq War, the Reagan administration adopted a policy of dual containment.
During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran.
After the Iran-Iraq war, the Basij returned to its role as an internal security force to enforce Islamic morality.
CNN: Feared Basij militia has deep history in Iranian conflict
Khomeini made him Minister of the Revolutionary Guards to quash internal dissent and smuggle in weapons for the Iran-Iraq war.
In the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq war, managers reportedly buried the wells, concerned that they might be targeted by Iranian forces.
Many Iraqi soldiers never returned from the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the first Gulf War in 1991, and the latest conflict.
Similarly in Iraq, the Shia conscripts who make up the bulk of the army saved the country from defeat during the Iran-Iraq war.
Inpex, which is closely linked to the Japanese government, says it's waiting for Iran to clear away mines left over from the Iran-Iraq War.
Iraqi government forces attacked the town near the Iranian border after it was taken over by Kurdish rebels towards the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
Ebrahimi was a founding member of the Ansar-e Hezbollah group, which like many others has its roots in the Iran-Iraq war in the late 1980s.
Having served as prime minister during the traumatic 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, he has shied away from politics since then, and so remains something of an unknown.
ECONOMIST: Reformists will struggle in the presidential race in Iran
There were some sales of helicopters and aircraft early in the Iran-Iraq war that were said to be for civilian or agricultural purposes but not much.
The Iran-Iraq war was one of the most brutal conflicts of the 20th century, an attritional stalemate that took the lives of an estimated one million people.
In scenes reminiscent of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, ordinary Iranians responded to the disaster by piling up food and clothes at collection points across the country.
They include Andrew Wilkie, a former Canberra intelligence official who resigned in protest over the government's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence and who is standing for the Greens.
ECONOMIST: John Howard is facing attacks from unexpected corners
Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy once again seized on the row over the legal basis for the Iraq war - the issue which simply will not go away.
应用推荐