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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (46450)9/23/2002 8:31:02 PM
From: margie  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
On CSPAN Now: How Iraq was armed by the West, House Armed Services Committee hearing about new legislation trying to liberalizeU.S. Dual Use Export Policy.

Amazing. That is how Saddam Hussein was armed; with many U.S. companies involved in arming Saddam.
The U.S. commerce Department provided the export licences, 771, according to Henry Gonzales

The proposed legislation would make it easier for Iraq to import materials for nuclear weapons.
We can't loosen controls on export of sensitive material and then smash Iraq for benefitting from it.

Gary Milhollin is testifying now about the export of sensitive technology. Mulhollin is the director of Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms. Website is iraqwatch.org
There is no question that U.S. exports contributed to Saddam's nuclear program. Dr. Hamza said that 80 to 90% of their nuclear program came from the US in legal dual use exports, licensed by the Commerce Department.

The US Commerce Department was pursuing a policy of seeking Trade over National Security. As Milhollin says: It is not a matter of trade now; it is a matter of body bags now.

And the US is the country least willing to acknowledge it. They still haven't.
German firms sold as much as all the other countries combined.But the Germans did acknowledge it.

Dr. Hamza former leader of Iraq's nuclear program will testify next.
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