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Originally Posted by HOZ
USA did NOT give Iraq chemical weapons.
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Wrong again.
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/a...rming_iraq.php
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May, 1986. The US Department of Commerce licenses 70 biological exports to Iraq between May of 1985 and 1989, including at least 21 batches of lethal strains of anthrax."
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April, 1988. US Department of Commerce approves shipment of chemicals used in manufacture of mustard gas."
Oh, and if you're going to try and use the defense that the United States didn't know that the Iraqis were using, or would use, chemical and biological weapons in the theatre of war, I'll burst that baloon as well.
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November 1983. George Schultz, the Secretary of State, is given intelligence reports showing that Iraqi troops are daily using chemical weapons against the Iranians."
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August, 1988. Four major battles were fought from April to August 1988, in which the Iraqis massively and effectively used chemical weapons to defeat the Iranians. Nerve gas and blister agents such as mustard gas are used. By this time the US Defense Intelligence Agency is heavily involved with Saddam Hussein in battle plan assistance, intelligence gathering and post battle debriefing. In the last major battle with of the war, 65,000 Iranians are killed, many with poison gas. Use of chemical weapons in war is in violation of the Geneva accords of 1925."
If someone cares to toss out the BS about the United States being so upset about Saddam gassing the Kurds, this will also blow that out of the water.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/040.html
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When Saddam did in fact use chemical weapons against his own people, he did so on the afternoon of 17 March 1988, against the Kurdish city of Halabja. The United States provided diplomatic cover by initially blaming Iran for the attack. The Reagan Administration tried to prevent criticism of the atrocity. The Bush (senior) administration authorised new loans to Saddam in order to achieve the goal of increasing US exports and put us in a better position to deal with Iraq regarding its human rights record."
One last beauty, from the first linked doc, that the big RWers on the sight will have a hard time explaining away.
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February, 1982. Despite objections from congress, President Reagan removes Iraq from its list of known terrorist countries."
Not only did Reagan arm and train the mujahideen, that evolved in al Qaeda, but they were the ones that built up Saddam. God bless the saint of all neo-cons, he really was a forward thinker!