[angkor]

BBC TV also made a bizarre comment: that Saddam's capture might be bad for America because he knows all the secrets from the 1980's, when we were "arming him."

BBC TV did not mention that Saddam also knows all the secrets from the 1990's until now, when he was receiving supplies and support from France, Germany, and Russia.

BBC TV also didn't understand that Saddam is in U.S. custody, and that we know what he knows, and that Saddam will not be speaking on the public circuit or giving interviews to BBC TV or writing magazine articles.

[Dilbert56]

The BBC is perpetrating a lie.

See http://projects.sipri.se/armstrade/Trnd_Ind_IRQ_Imps_73-02.pdf for the true story. Total in those 20 years we sold them some light helicopters that the military converted from civilian use. That's it. The Axis of Weasels and Soviet Union did the heavy lifting there.