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Politics : Let's Talk About the War

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To: Ilaine who started this subject	3/22/2004 8:12:15 PM
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Message 19945208 Interesting figures showing the % of share for the years 1973 to 2002, averaged out over that 29 years. Note that these figures are for "actual delivery of major conventional weapons only." I presume they don't cover biological precursor cultures, for example, and the value of satellite and other intelligence provided to Iraq to assist in its battlefield planning. I don't know what other aid we gave them and I don't know if helicopters were included in the millions of "major conventional weapons," or if they're considered transport. "Figures are trend-indicator values expressed in US $m. at constant (1990) prices" I believe you're implying it was chump change we gave the Iraqis. We gave them 0 millions in 24 of those years you cite, like all the years before 1983 and after 1988. From 1983 to 1988, we gave them 200 million, 125,000,000.00 of it in 1988, the year of the Kurdish massacres.

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