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[OperationFreedom]

I was told at a peace protest that We supplied the Scuds and the MIGs... and that we make those items... not Russia. I laughed in his face. He was hurt and said I would maybe learn the truth someday. I laughed some more. Please note I had tried an intelligent discussion earlier with this creep but he was belligerant and an a$$hole in general.

[nopardons]

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[k2blader]

Thanks--bookmarked!

There was another excellent article written on this subject several weeks ago. I'll have to dig around for it in "My Comments"...

[MEGoody]

One thing the left keeps saying is that the U.S. supplied chemical weapons to Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war. I've read that this isn't the case, but not sure how dependable the source was. Can anyone verify?

[Doomonyou]

The US has supplied TONS of bombs to Iraq. We just delivered them by air.

[bert]

Back in the early 90's, I had occasion to deal with the just liberated Russians. One company wanted some fax machines and PC's. We had plenty if they had the money to pay.

They did not.

They had supplied stuff to Iraq and others and recieved funds from their bank collateralized with some sort of paper..... foreign government depositorey receipts or some such. They collected no money. They had a fancy paper dreamed up by their banks. They had millions and millions of dollars worth.

At first, they offered these notes as payment. We demurred. they then increased trhe amount against somene's dream of a value in US$. We demurred. They had the Iraqui's call us and tell us they would accept the notes against Iraqui goods. We give the Russians fax machines, they give us Iraqui paper and the Iraqi's give us Iraqi made goods. We demurred. No $$$$, no stuff.

The incredible fact is the Russians are stupid. They had their factories crank out the stuff shipped to Iraq and instead of getting paid, they took paper. They ran the paper thru their banking system and made it appear that there had been a completed transaction. This practice also was used in trade with other nations as well. The folks we were dealing with had all kinds of these bank receipts, but Most were from Iraq.

They could not believe that they had done all that work for literally nothing. The system that one day just up and failed was based on colossal stupidity.

The Russians will never ever collect from Iraq. The recent trade resulted in a greater screwing than the old days.

[backhoe]

From http://www.iraqwatch.org

How Western greed created Hussein's Iraq (12-22-91)

By Gary Milhollin

a review of

THE DEATH LOBBY
How the West Armed Iraq. By Kenneth Timmerman.
Houghton Mifflin. 443 pp. Illustrated. $21.95.

How Western greed created Hussein's Iraq
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