We not only lifted many export licenses for Iraq, we removed them from State Department’s list of terrorist countries in 82. We also supplied them with satellite imagery, Iranian defense locations and other intelligence assets for the use of chemical weapons against Iran.
As for pathogens and such, look up the Riegle report. We exported over 50 shipments of anthrax alone to Iraq.
So you cite the Riegle report, but aren’t actually cognizant of it?
According to the report, there were years between when Iraq was taken off the terrorist list, and when they began the research programs. When they began acting out, they got put right back on the naughty list. Even at that, what the US sold them was trivial.
Also, you should understand what anthrax is. Iraq has had anthrax for at least a few hundred years. Pretty much every nation with ungulates has anthrax. What they were given were reference samples...like much of the rest of the world. As for the quantity of fifty, that’s like saying three boxes of .22 constitutes an arsenal.
There are posts above that go into more detail.