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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (80867)	3/10/2003 7:37:36 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 281500

>>The real question is WTF was the West thinking when they sold WMDs to Saddam<< New York Times reporter Judith Miller does a creditable job of debunking this tired old assertion in her recent book about biological warfare, Germs. amazon.com Once again, I'll boil it down to the essentials. "We" (meaning the US government, or the US people, or US corporations) did not sell WMD to Iraq. They had, and have, their own bioweapons program, and bought small samples of biologicals from ATCC, a global tissue repository which is located in the US, as well as obtaining some others from various universities. atcc.org The way it was done was that they pretended the samples would be used for legitimate research by universities and other legitimate organizations. Admittedly, in retrospect it is regrettable that these samples were provided to Iraq, but that is all that was done. We did not provide them with bioweapons. They made their own.

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