[WSGilcrest]

Pinched this from another thread the other day. Can't vouch for it accuracy.

[spokeshave]

Also France was top receipient in the "oil for food" program, followed by Russia.

[Technogeeb]

Pinched this from another thread the other day. Can't vouch for it accuracy

I can. It's not accurate. The "1%" number for the USA includes unarmed civilian helicopters (Bell 212/214, etc) that were sold to Iraq for civilian purposes and then confiscated by the Iraqi military and used as VIP transports. Since they are unarmed, they should not count as "weapons", and since they weren't sold to the military they should also not count as "weapons". The correct percentage for the USA should be zero on this chart, because other than these helicopters, nothing in the Iraqi inventory is made in the USA.

[L_Von_Mises]

Here is another source with the same info. It is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. From the name, hardly a right-wing organization.

Main page for Iraqi arms purchases

Table with values for each year by country and totals for year and country

Table showing detail of what type of weapons

I found it interesting that what we sold them was a total of 117 helicopters over a three year period from 1983-1985 of which 87 were intended for civilian use but taken over by the military. I would hardly call that arming them. France sold them 108 Mirage Fighter jets. Russia was the big supplier overall with just one sale being 2,150 T-62 tanks. But as far as just tanks go, China sold them 2,600.

[dennisw]

good chart

[MortMan]

Well, I saw the same graph in the Weekly Standard Magazine - which means it passed their veracity checks. It looks right to me!

[WOSG]

Nice chart!

[FreedomPoster]

I went to the web site reference on that bar chart, and it looks reasonably credible. Heck, its from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Certainly not the kind of organization to be biased in favor the U.S.A.

Lefties don't have an argument there.

[Michael81Dus]

Why can´t I find GERMANY on that list?

You all claimed that Germany had something to hide and had doubts that it´s just their radical pacifism...

The electronics for the Scuds? Oh yeah, ok. But that´s not secret and that was delivered until 1991...

So, I ask you: what has the German government (that is in office since 1998 - before that Kohl was in power) to hide?