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To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (16656)	12/24/2002 4:56:21 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82047

Al >I hope the guy can find a decent lawyer To do what? Change your government? Perhaps you can see what people outside the US are worried about. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I've been thinking about Trent Lott. Perhaps he didn't do all that badly. When his great, grand mother looked back she was turned into a pillar of salt --- when he looked back he was only turned into scapegoat.

To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (16656)	12/25/2002 5:48:55 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 82047

Al >As much as dislike lawyers it's these kinds of situations that they were created for... rense.com >>>The list, obtained by AFP, includes the names of 19 German, 10 British, four Swiss and two French concerns, as well as three companies from the Netherlands, Austria and the United States that supplied materials allegedly used in the Iraqi chemical weapons program through the 1980s. Leading the roster is the German firm Preussag, which, according to the document, supplied Baghdad with tonnes of precursor chemicals for manufacturing nerve gas, helped it build chemical agent facilities and sold it chemical agent production equipment. Other German companies include Hoechst, who supplied in 1982 10 tonnes of phosphorus oxychloride, a chemical used to manufacture the nerve gas sarin, and Karl Kolb, who provided Iraq assistance in building and equipping a plant used for chemical weapons production, the document said. <<< wisconsinproject.org >>>In the article in the New York Times from 1992, entitled "Iraq's Bomb, Chip by Chip," we see that America's leading electronic companies sold sensitive equipment directly to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, to sites where atomic bomb fuel was made, and to a site where A-bomb detonators were made. American companies also shipped directly to Saad 16, Iraq's main missile building site, and to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, which oversaw Iraq's missile and A-bomb development. Virtually every nuclear and missile site in Iraq received high-speed American computers. These exports are set out in greater detail in our 1991 report "Licensing Mass Destruction." The report shows that all of these exports were licensed by the U.S. Commerce Department and, in many cases, the Commerce Department knew full well that the exports were going to nuclear, missile and military installations. Why did the Commerce Department approve such exports? Because the United States was following a policy of putting trade above national security. The bill now before Congress follows this same policy. That policy was wrong then, and it is just as wrong now. <<< cns.miis.edu