How the United States Armed Saddam (Prove Your Anti-War "Friends" Wrong)

SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) ^ | 4/4/03 | Self

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

This info is current as of April 4, 2003:

Arms transfers to Iraq, 1973-2002

[MEG33]

Good post .

[Diddley]

Great chart.

But - I thought that it was the war-mongering U.S. that had armed Saddam (/sarc)

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Excellent, love the sarcasm.

Bump/ping/bookmark

[Restorer]

It would be only fair to add Poland to the war-mongering side. They have troops fighting as part of the coalition.

[Spirited]

Thank you so much for this post. It is vital to me.

Kudos.

[pragmatic_asian]

A. H. Cordesman, in his 1998 report on the Iraqi military for the Center for Strategic & International Studies: In the key period between 1973-91 the US exported a mere $5 million of weapons to Iraq; more reprehensibly the UK sold $330 million-worth of arms. Of much greater interest are the arms export totals to Iraq of the four countries most against military action: Germany with $995 million, China $5.5 billion, France $9.24 billion, and the Russians a massive $31.8 billion.

[ellery]

bttt

[my right]

Boy I would like to see this on Fox for about two days.

[Ken H]

Very handy facts to have at one's fingertips.

Great post.

[Keith in Iowa]

Good stuff - bookmarked for future use.

[Technogeeb]

Even this report is overly generous to the "US armed Iraq" lie. It shows 1% of such sales coming from the U.S. Considering that there are no U.S. weapons in Iraqi inventory, they are probably counting the sale of Bell 212 / 214 helicopters, which are not only unarmed, but are not used in a military role (they were used as VIP transports). They were also sold specifically for non-military purposes, and thus should not be counted as "arms".

The real percentage for the United States should be "0%", since not a single U.S. weapon system has ever been sold to Iraq.

[FreedomPoster]

>>not a single U.S. weapon system has ever been sold to Iraq

I've been engaging the lefties on a neutral board, mainly for the benefit of the lurkers. There was a thread going about how "U.S. provided massive amounts of military assistance and gear to Saddam." The thread had about a dozen posts on it when I posted, "Yes, that's why they have all those T-55's, T-72's, BMP's, AK-47's, RPG's, MiG's, and Mirages."

The thread pretty much ended at that point. Man, I love making lefties look stupid. If you can find a neutral forum on which to do it, it's easy and great fun.

[q_an_a]

From 73 to 89 could have been the majority of their sales. Not so the French, 50% of their defense sales in the past 2 years has been to Iraq

[happygrl]

WOW.

The World Turned Upside Down

[Kay Soze]

Thank you!

Its obvious form the front line pics that every weapon is Russian and Chinese. Tanks Arteillery and rifles.

And the planes (where ever they are)are either Chinese Mig clones or French Mirages!

I have yet to see a single m-16 being waved around by an Iraqi that is against us.

[Kay Soze]

This should be posted on the Freep Start page.

[knighthawk]

BUMP!

[knighthawk]

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[Orion78]

"The failure of US policy makers to comprehend the veiled aggressiveness and hostility towards the United States inherent in Sino-Russian strategy and the belief that the political and economic reforms in Russia and the partial introduction of capitalism in China have foreshadowed these countries' development into real democracies, have eroded the effectiveness of US policies in the foreign affairs, defence, intelligence and counter-intelligence fields. US policymakers have recklessly accepted the premise that Russia and China are no longer their enemies, but are rather potential allies and partners fully deserving of US support. Only countries like Iran, Iraq and North Korea - which (ironically, in this context) work secretly with Russia and China - are still considered potential adversaries.

US policymakers should urgently re-examine their assumptions about the 'progress' of Russia and China 'towards democracy'. They should take account of Sino-Russian strategy and should recognise that the long-term strategic, political and economic threat comes from a Sino-Russian axis and associated participants like North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Syria. The Russian and Chinese leaders are still committed to their objective of world domination and believe that, disguised as 'democrats', in accordance with Leninist teaching, they will be able to achieve it..."