Originally Posted By: Mystic
That old chemical weapons plant and the buried aged chemical weapons that have been found PROVE that Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons. As if any proof was needed because SADDAM HUSSEIN USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE KURDS! Is that not proof enough?
I don't recall ever saying that he didn't use chemical weapons against the Kurds.
Now you can scream about it all you want. But old, useless, contaminated, weapons don't count.
You do know that they were from the Iran-Iraq War?
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/arming_iraq.php
February, 1982. Despite objections from congress, President Reagan removes Iraq from its list of known terrorist countries.
November 1983. George Schultz, the Secretary of State, is given intelligence reports showing that Iraqi troops are daily using chemical weapons against the Iranians
July, 1984. CIA begins giving Iraq intelligence necessary to calibrate its mustard gas attacks on Iranian troops.
March, 1986. The United States with Great Britain block all Security Council resolutions condemning Iraq's use of chemical weapons, and on March 21 the US becomes the only country refusing to sign a Security Council statement condemning Iraq's use of these weapons
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.
May, 1986. US Department of Commerce approves shipment of weapons grade botulin poison to Iraq.
February, 1988. Saddam Hussein begins the "Anfal" campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq. The Iraq regime used chemical weapons against the Kurds killing over 100,000 civilians and destroying over 1,200 Kurdish villages.
US Department of Commerce approves shipment of chemicals used in manufacture of mustard gas.
August, 1988. Five days after the cease fire Saddam Hussein sends his planes and helicopters to northern Iraq to begin massive chemical attacks against the Kurds.
September, 1988. US Department of Commerce approves shipment of weapons grade anthrax and botulinum to Iraq.
September, 1988. Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State: "The US-Iraqi relationship is... important to our long-term political and economic objectives."
December, 1988. Dow chemical sells $1.5 million in pesticides to Iraq despite knowledge that these would be used in chemical weapons.
July, 1992. "The Bush administration deliberately, not inadvertently, helped to arm Iraq by allowing U.S. technology to be shipped to Iraqi military and to Iraqi defense factories... Throughout the course of the Bush administration, U.S. and foreign firms were granted export licenses to ship U.S. technology directly to Iraqi weapons facilities despite ample evidence showing that these factories were producing weapons." Representative Henry Gonzalez, Texas, testimony before the House.
February, 1994. Senator Riegle from Michigan, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, testifies before the senate revealing large US shipments of dual-use biological and chemical agents to Iraq that may have been used against US troops in the Gulf War and probably was the cause of the illness known as Gulf War Syndrome.
"The use of gas [during the Iran-Iraq war] on the battle field by the Iraqis was not a matter of deep strategic concern... We were desperate to make sure that Iraq did not lose". Colonel Walter Lang, former senior US Defense Intelligence officer tells the New York Times.
If you want to scream about chemical weapons that *we* provided, that's fine.
But it is irrelevant to events from Gulf War II and what was found after the end. See, having old contaminated weapons is not the same as developing new ones, is it.
The ones you scream about are way past the expiration date.
Oh, and why don't you grow up and call Apollo 14 by the name used and stop being childish with this "mori" stuff. Unless you can prove it beyond doubt.
