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Originally Posted by Linkster
Actually it is - this came out during the congresional hearings when people found out that D. Rumsfeld had spent some time in Iraq in 1984 with Saddam as the US envoy - I only provided a little snippet of some of the testimony and records from congress - this was just one of the US companies providing biological and poison components at the time in our support to Iraq against Iran - we also brokered deals where we provided helicopters that were used in the Kurd attack that everybody is up in arms about - and Saddam is on trial for:
"From the From U.S. Senate Hearing Report 103-900
u.s. exports of biological materials to iraq
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has
oversight responsibility for the Export Administration Act. Pursuant to
the Act, Committee staff contacted the U.S. Department of Commerce and
requested information on the export of biological materials during the
years prior to the Gulf War. After receiving this information, we
contacted a principal supplier of these materials to determine what, if
any, materials were exported to Iraq which might have contributed to an
offensive or defensive biological warfare program. Records available
from the supplier for the period from 1985 until the present show that
during this time, pathogenic (meaning "disease producing"), toxigenic
(meaning "poisonous"), and other biological research materials were
exported to Iraq pursuant to application and licensing by the U.S.
Department of Commerce. Records prior to 1985 were not available,
according to the supplier. These exported biological materials were not
attenuated or weakened and were capable of reproduction. According to
the Department of Defense's own Report to Congress on the Conduct of
the Persian Gulf War, released in April 1992"
If you would like to study some more of our history in Iraq - you might get a better understanding of what is really wrong with what we are doing now - and why the US has already lost to the terrorists - a great man once said that "fear of terrorism is the indication you have lost to them" - I totally agree and we have just played right into the hands of what every jihaadist ever wanted
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- its a fact that the stuff Saddam used was US provided gas
No it is not fact. And the article you posted does not mention gas. I have studied our entire history in Iraq and I am more that familiar with what US companies provided to Iraq and did not provide as well as what the government provided Iraq and did not provide.
I am not aware of anyone that fears terrorism. I am aware that the government as well as the citizens have a concern about being attacked by enemies and that is as it should be. Have you ever considered that it is the "ihaadists" that "have just played right into the hands" of the US and the West in general.