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Originally Posted by theking
You can espouse BS all you want...but the facts are that the US did not put Saddam in power...did not sell any weapons of any type to Iraq other than a handfull of rotary wing aircraft and the indirect sale of some cluster bombs. The US government most certainly never sold a single weapon of mass destruction to Iraq. American private enterprise did sell dual use materials that the Iraqi's weaponized. When the US government learned that the Iraq's were weaponizing weapons from dual use materials...the ordered was issued to private enterprise to cease and desist...even then a few companies continued to sell dual use materials and heads rolled when this was discovered.
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Heres a link for you to look over - I would look primarily at the 1986 time frame when the US blocked the UN from imposing sanctions against Iraq for the use of biological/chemical weapons - that we supplied to them - and were later used in your "attack on innocent Kurds"
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/a...rming_iraq.php - if you need a little more in depth history and the documentation form the UN and the Senate hearings that were held back then I can either link them for you or you can research them yourself
But dont fool yourself into thinking that the vice-president of Iraq (which is what Saddam was at the time) was doing all of these things on his own - and please dont think that I am anywhere close to anti-military as I was over there when this was happening - seems we had a little problem with some people that were taken hostage in Iran a little earlier and if you need documentation of that - I have the service medals and commendation letters to back it up if youd like to see them