There are many valid points concerning the Riegle report that have never been deemed invalid. Your point of Anthrax already being in Iraq is misses the point of weapons exportation from the US. Sure, Iraq could have harvested such Bacillus, but there was no need, for We helped to supply them. And later, such ownership of Bacillus was used as a Casus belli!
And? I hadn't contested it. I said you didn't understand the portions you referenced.
Your point of Anthrax already being in Iraq is misses the point of weapons exportation from the US.
My point was that these weren't weapons exportations, they were medical and medical research register samples.
Sure, Iraq could have harvested such Bacillus, but there was no need, for We helped to supply them. And later, such ownership of Bacillus was used as a Casus belli!
And...missed the point again...and mis-stated as a "Casus belli!" It wasn't that Iraq had ever had them, it was that they were attempting to weaponize anthrax (regardless of its source), and as a result of eventually using chemical weapons and then threatening further use, at the ceasefire of a war they lost agreed to be rid of entire categories, of which anthrax cultures were an example, of weapons and weaponizable materials, and were not to engage in even research into those areas.