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To: Ilaine who wrote (51045)10/11/2002 9:06:19 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Read on a few more paragraphs, if you please:

In the 1980's we provided his army with satellite intelligence so that it could use chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers. When Saddam used nerve gas and mustard gas against Kurds in 1988, the Reagan administration initially tried to blame Iran. We shipped seven strains of anthrax to Iraq between 1978 and 1988.



To: Ilaine who wrote (51045)10/11/2002 10:47:37 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
But then, the oil money is used to provide food and humanitarian supplies for the Iraqi people. Is that bad? Looks like win-win to me.

Not exactly right. Check Pollock on that one. He argues most of that money goes into WMD development.


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