[Peach]

I just looked at your in-forum page.

I didn't realize you were Russian and did not mean to insult your grasp of our grammer.

I am having a hard time understanding some of the things you have posted because you are not staying on the topic of the thread which, in my opinion, is that the Russians sold illegal weapons to the Iraqis. Weapons that were used to kill our soldiers.

No one has said the weapons were WMD. No one has said that eye goggles per se would kill anyone.

However, they and other weapons WERE sold illegally by the Russian government to the Iraqi government. Those weapons are strictly forbidden to be sold by the UN.

This is not a good thing to do and you can understand why Americans will resent it.

[PhilDragoo]

Indian Sunday Express: SPECIAL FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON, JAN 10: US officials have found evidence corroborating the Bush administration’s allegations that Russian companies sold Saddam high-tech military equipment that threatened US forces during the invasion of Iraq last March, a senior State Department official said on Friday.

The official said the US has found proof that Russian companies exported night-vision goggles and radar-jamming equipment to Iraq for use there. The evidence includes the equipment itself and proof that it was used during the war, according to the official.

Such exports would violate the terms of UN sanctions against Iraq. ‘‘We have corroborated some of that evidence,’’ the official told a group of reporters. While insisting that the matter is ‘‘now in the past,’’ he said that the Bush administration ‘‘never received entirely satisfactory explanations’’.

Excerpt. Balance at link above.