12/20/1983

“…on December 20, 1983, Donald Rumsfeld, serving as a special envoy of President [Ronald] Reagan…traveled to Baghdad [Iraq] and, with a warm smile and handshake (captured by photograph), assured Hussein that the latter could count on America being in his corner in his war with Iran.”

 – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 259