12-19-2003, 12:14 AM
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Originally posted by theking
The US never provided Iraq with a single WMD...period. US companies sold Iraq materials that were dual use and when the use that Iraq was applying to the dual use materials became certain such sales were forbidden but some companies continued sales through indirect means...because of greed...and when this was learned some of those companies had a price to pay. The only weapons that were supplied to Iraq was some cluster bombs and they were not supplied directly. Other than that the US assisted Iraq and Iran both with intel...as the position at that time was not to allow either country to decisively defeat the other.
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the Washington Post provided new details yesterday about Mr Rumsfeld's role, and about the extent of the Reagan administration's knowledge of the use of chemical weapons.
The details will embarrass Mr Rumsfeld, who as defence secretary in the Bush administration is one of the leading hawks on Iraq, frequently denouncing it for its past use of such weapons.
The US provided less conventional military equipment than British or German companies but it did allow the export of biological agents, including anthrax; vital ingredients for chemical weapons; and cluster bombs sold by a CIA front organisation in Chile, the report says.
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