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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (540)12/16/2003 2:15:25 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
From: CobaltBlue
To: KyrosL

What you keep sliding past is who were we to say "yea" or "nay". In 1987, Reagan called for an embargo against selling arms to either Iran or Iraq, and sanctions against any country who did that, but was met with lukewarm response from allies. In 1989, the US banned the export of so-called "dual use" technology to Iraq. Without multilateral cooperation, our ban was fruitless.
Iraq, as well as Syria, Libya, and Iran continued to import the technology and the feedstocks from other nations, including France and Germany.

We weren't nearly as powerful then, the Cold War was still in full swing.

And afterwards, Saddam could continue to buy from China and North Korea and Pakistan. Someone always wants money.

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