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Originally posted by wonton
The US not only supported that war, we sold him weapons to fight it, we supplied him with intelligence reports to improve his battle plans, we sold him 80% of the chemicals and biological agents that tipped his warheads.
Saddam AND THE USA together are the ones that killed almost 1 million Iranians and Iraqis. And that is a fact.
When Saddam gassed 2,000 Kurds in 1988, he used chemical weapons supplied by American labs. Saddam viewed the Kurds as his enemy only because the CIA armed them and led them into a failed invasion of Baghdad in the late 1970s to help our friend, the Shah of Iran. And when Saddam gassed them in 1988, President Reagan and Vice President Bush continued to happily arm him to the teeth with MORE chemical and biological agents.
It is a total joke. When Iraq presented that 12,000 page report to the US just a few months ago, the US censored THOUSANDS OF PAGES that detailed all the american companies, from Lockheed to Monsanto, that have supplied Iraq for years - EVEN UP TO 1992, AFTER THE GULF WAR!!!!
Now on that Niteline broadcast, they briefly presented the "think tank" that is responsible for the current war plan and referenced their reports. I posted those very reports in this forum a couple of weeks ago. Read the reports. They center more around oil reserves and oil pipelines than anything else. They admit that Iraq will be used as a staging ground for US domination of that area and its energy reserves. THAT is the conspiracy because the major admitted reason we are going to war is barely discussed at all in the mainstream media. All we get is is this crap about WMD (which have yet to be proven to even exist). That is a total red herring.
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THE WEST SUPPORTED SADDAM AND IT WAS A MISTAKE!!
Yes, the U.S. supplied Iraq with weapons. It was a mistake. But, it was a case of who is a greater evil, Iraq or Iran? Since Iraq is secular and not tied up with the fanaticism that Iran is.
People seem to think the U.S. was the only one supporting Saddam. Hardly. England, France, Germany, most of Europe was supporting Iraq.
And the French and Germans supplied Iraq with more weapons than the U.S. Shit, the French sold them a nuclear reactor.
You have this one-sided view that only America is responsible for everything that's wrong. There's no culpability anywhere else. At least the U.S. and Britain have the spine to correct their mistakes while France and Germany (who supplied more shit to the Iraqis) stand on the sideline.