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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (331638)	12/20/2002 2:11:33 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Clown? Are the Repubs. appointing a demolib pinhead as their leader??? Doubt it Chrissy poo....

To: Skywatcher who wrote (331638)	12/20/2002 2:15:02 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

List Of US Firms That Armed Iraq Household Names Democracy Now! Wednesday, 18 December, 2002 Top-secret Iraq Report Reveals U.S. Corporations, Gov't Agencies and Nuclear Labs Helped Illegally Arm Iraq Hewlett Packard, Dupont, Honeywell and other major U.S. corporations, as well as governmental agencies including the Department of Defense and the nation s nuclear labs, all illegally helped Iraq to build its biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs. On Wednesday, December 18, Geneva-based reporter Andreas Zumach broke the story on the US national listener-sponsored radio and television show Democracy Now! Zumach's Berlin-based paper Die Tageszeitung plans to soon publish a full list of companies and nations who have aided Iraq. The paper first reported on Tuesday that German and U.S. companies had extensive ties to Iraq but didn t list names. Zumach obtained top-secret portions of Iraq's 12,000-page weapons declaration that the US had redacted from the version made available to the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. We have 24 major U.S. companies listed in the report who gave very substantial support especially to the biological weapons program but also to the missile and nuclear weapons program, Zumach said. Pretty much everything was illegal in the case of nuclear and biological weapons. Every form of cooperation and supplies was outlawed in the 1970s. The list of U.S. corporations listed in Iraq's report include Hewlett Packard, DuPont, Honeywell, Rockwell, Tectronics, Bechtel, International Computer Systems, Unisys, Sperry and TI Coating. Zumach also said the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture quietly helped arm Iraq. U.S. government nuclear weapons laboratories Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia trained traveling Iraqi nuclear scientists and gave non-fissile material for construction of a nuclear bomb. There has never been this kind of comprehensive layout and listing like we have now in the Iraqi report to the Security Council so this is quite new and this is especially new for the U.S. involvement, which has been even more suppressed in the public domain and the U.S. population, Zumach said. The names of companies were supposed to be top secret. Two weeks ago Iraq provided two copies of its full 12,000-page report, one to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Geneva, and one to the United Nations in New York. Zumach said the U.S. broke an agreement of the Security Council and blackmailed Colombia, which at the time was presiding over the Council, to take possession of the UN s only copy. The U.S. then proceeded to make copies of the report for the other four permanent Security Council nations, Britain, France, Russia and China. Only yesterday did the remaining members of the Security Council receive their copies. By then, all references to foreign companies had been removed. According to Zumach, only Germany had more business ties to Iraq than the U.S. As many as 80 German companies are also listed in Iraq's report. The paper reported that some German companies continued to do business with Iraq until last year. US Corporations named in Iraqi Report : 1 Honeywell 2 Spectra Physics 3 Semetex 4 TI Coating 5 Unisys 6 Sperry Corp. 7 Tektronix 8 Rockwell 9 Leybold Vacuum Systems 10 Finnigan-MAT-US 11 Hewlett-Packard 12 Dupont 13 Eastman Kodak 14 American Type Culture Collection 15 Alcolac International 16 Consarc 17 Carl Zeiss 18 Cerberus 19 Electronic Associates 20 International Computer Systems 21 Bechtel 22 EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc. 23 Canberra Industries Inc. 24 Axel Electronics Inc. A true home grown war CC