O aperto de mão de Rumsfeld a Saddam

E o que foi Donald Rumsfeld fazer ao Iraque em 1984, quando foi fotografado a cumprimentar Saddam Hussein?
«Donald H. Rumsfeld went to Baghdad in March 1984 with instructions to deliver a private message about weapons of mass destruction: that the United States' public criticism of Iraq for using chemical weapons would not derail Washington's attempts to forge a better relationship, according to newly declassified documents.»
No Washington Post de hoje.
Repito, a negro, para quem tenha dificuldades de visão:
...«that the United States' public criticism of Iraq for using chemical weapons would not derail Washington's attempts to forge a better relationship».