true - the US was not solely responsible...many countries did sell Iraq the so-called pre-cursor materials that were utilized to create the weaponry.
That being said, the leap from pre-cursor, to the potential use of those chemicals was not a something that was totally out of the blue...just as the refining of plutonium for energy by Iran is seen as a step towards weaponizing.
Certainly, European countries should be called out for their role - however, the difference is that those countries haven't acted out like the US has, trying to justify a war and invasion predicated on actions that they facilitated when it served their political goals in the past.
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