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Originally Posted by Linkster
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 |
I do not like the source...but it does seem to be reasonably accurate.
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December, 1982. Hughes Aircraft ships 60 Defender helicopters to Iraq. [9]
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I was aware of this as I have stated that we sold them some rotary wing aircraft that were not gunships...but this not to say that Iraq did not convert them into being gunships.
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October, 1983. The Reagan Administration begins secretly allowing Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Egypt to transfer United States weapons, including Howitzers, Huey helicopters, and bombs to Iraq. These shipments violated the Arms Export Control Act. [16]
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Howitzers are news to me and as I previously stated we sold some cluster bombs to Iraq.
Since no other report I have read stated anything about Howitzers...I take this report with a grain of salt.
The sale of some rotary wing aircraft...cluster bombs...and even some howitzers is not the Arming of one of the largest Armies in the world at the time.
I repeat that the US did not sell a single WMD to Iraq. It was known at the time and has always been known that US private enterprise did sell dual use materials.
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The Soviet Union was the largest weapons supplier, but England, France and Germany were also involved in the shipment of arms and technology.
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