A Moment of Reflection (barf alert)

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[That Poppins Woman]

Our government sold Saddam the first of his biological weapons. Then our government decided they didn't need him any more, told him it would be okay if he invaded Kuwait and declared war on him, blowing up the Supergun and the biological weapons (we hope).

April 1998 - William Blum, lots of info from the Senate report -- names of companies that shipped bio-chem weaponry stuff, what was shipped, interesting tidbit that the head of the GWSyndrome report that dismissed any links between GWS and bio-chem weaponry also happened to be the director of one of the companies that was shipping the bio-chem weaponry during the time they were shipping it:

Most Americans listening to the President did not know that the United States supplied Iraq with much of the raw material for creating a chemical and biological warfare program. Nor did the media report that U.S. companies sold Iraq more than $1 billion worth of the components needed to build nuclear weapons and diverse types of missiles, including the infamous Scud.

When Iraq engaged in chemical and biological warfare in the 1980s, barely a peep of moral outrage could be heard from Washington, as it kept supplying Saddam with the materials he needed to build weapons.

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Interestingly, several DEFENSE contractors who sent computers, lasers, test & analysis equipment, instruments and hardware vital to the manufacture of NUCLEAR weapons, missiles and delivery systems pleaded before the Senate, that they, the DEFENSE CONTRACTORS, had no idea Iraq would use these products for military purposes. /barf!!!!!!

See also The Observer (UK), January 1998 American investigators have established that several shipments of biological material, including 21 batches of anthrax , were licensed for export from the US to Iraq between 1985 and 1988. They were sent to the Ministry of Higher Education and the Ministry of Trade in Baghdad.

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RONALD REAGAN 1980-1988.

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On a personal note, I worked around Security Assistance, i.e., the folks that handle the sales of military equipment and training. The biggest joke there was that we (America) had trained every single despot on the planet, including Saddam.