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Originally posted by ALF88
And you are ignoring the very fact that it was your government who gave those WMDs to him. Using them on the Kurds was a crime, but so was providing him with the gas and other weapons. One should think the US has learned from its mistakes in the past, but it is pretty obvious that you didn't.
Linky here
In the late 1970's, it was actually the German firm 'Karl Kobe' that sold Iraq the ingredients for it's first chemical weapons. Karl Kobe and others sold Iraq over 1,027 tons of the chemicals needed to produce mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and various tear gasses including CS and CN. The chemical weapons program was operational by late 1983/early 1984.
The United States CDC (Center for Disease Control) provided Iraq with biological samples up until 1989 for "Medical research and other purposes". The US supplied anthrax, West Nile virus, botulism, and Brucella melitensis to Iraq for little or no charge.
The United Kingdom paid, in full, for the Iraqi chlorine plant where mustard gas was manufactured. Brazil provided around 100 tons of mustard gas in the early 80's before the British funded plant was up and running. Singapore and India provided the ingredients for VX nerve agent and yet still more Tabun.
Egypt and Spain both provided the majority of Iraq's munitions that were designed to carry and disperse the chemical weapons. In 1984, a CIA leak reported to the Washington Post that the CIA was providing intel to the Iraqis, including the targeting information and coordinates where Iraq used it's chemical weapons against Iran.
Originally posted by kro32
Why shouldn't we have bases in Libya? Makes it easier to deal with conflicts in the region and last time I checked Libya wasn't a superpower.
America is.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
reply to post by SLAYER69
United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War, as a counterbalance to post-revolutionary Iran, included several billion dollars worth of economic aid, the sale of dual-use technology, non-U.S. origin weaponry, military intelligence, Special Operations training, and direct involvement in warfare against Iran.
en.wikipedia.org...-deathlobby-3
Originally posted by ALF88
And you are ignoring the very fact that it was your government who gave those WMDs to him. Using them on the Kurds was a crime, but so was providing him with the gas and other weapons. One should think the US has learned from its mistakes in the past, but it is pretty obvious that you didn't.
Al-Tikriti dismissed the commonly heard claim that the U.S. helped bring Saddam to power, calling it "absolutely ludicrous." The Baathist revolution, he said, was backed by the Soviet Union because of the shared socialist ideology. "I was there helping with the revolution and worked on two occasions with Soviet KGB officials to help train us, much like the United States did with the Taliban during the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan," he said. "The United States never directly gave us any WMDs but rather ingredients. They were not mixed and these 'ingredients' could have been easily used for commercial use but were rather used to build low life chemical weapons." www.wnd.com...
What do you think ATS?
Originally posted by Lightrule
reply to post by kro32
Every time you post it makes me think you a paid shill. I mean you show up a couple months ago and already 4000+ posts none of which have any sort of real content. Always just the right comment to stir the pot, almost always pro establishment.
Anyways, a couple questions...
How are the conflicts in that area of the world any concern of the USA?
What does being a super power have to do with it?
That is all.
-Lightrule
Originally posted by cloaked4u
Here is a question that all ats members should be asking themselves. Why is hillary clinton to discuss anything about libya's future? Shoulden't they, THEY, be discussing their own future. What does this have to do with hillary or paris for that matter?
Originally posted by Lightrule
reply to post by nenothtu
Awesome? Your point regarding the OP is what again? Opinions are like assho... never mind bud, you get it...
Thanks for pointing out the special Olympics relationship to the internet...
How are you? Need a hug?
-Lightrule
Originally posted by kro32
reply to post by cloaked4u
Of course that's the reason and we don't want crazy dictators controlling something so vital to our country. If they want to come over here and control us that is certainly their right.
I find it funny how people think that if we just let everyone do what they want with the worlds oil supply everything will work out fine and they will all be friendly towards us.
Originally posted by kro32
Last time we left the world alone we ended up fighting world war 2. Maybe that's what you guys are hoping for but i'd rather see us involved before it get's to that point especially with nuclear weapons all over the place.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
He was a good guy in American foreign policy till he stopped doing what the Americans wanted. How about Osama, he was one of the good guys at one time as well.