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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Enigma who wrote (130649)4/30/2004 4:46:13 PM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
America helped him in covert ways

Actually we helped Saddam in pretty overt ways. The reason we didn't sell him arms was simple: there is a US law that prevents the US from selling arms to combatants (unless they are allies.) But we did give him some $4 billion in agricultural credits to import US food. The $4 billion saved went straight to his arms suppliers (multiplied a few times, since they were just down payments). In essence, the US financed a good deal of Saddam's arsenal in the eighties.

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