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To: Softechie who wrote (5425)	2/4/2003 12:12:49 PM
From: Kayaker	Respond to of 29597

OT - U.S. Played a Key Role In Iraq Military Buildup By Michael Dobbs Washington Post Staff Writer Monday 30 December 30 2002; Page A01 ...Among the people instrumental in tilting U.S. policy toward Baghdad during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war was Donald H. Rumsfeld, now defense secretary, whose December 1983 meeting with Hussein as a special presidential envoy paved the way for normalization of U.S.-Iraqi relations. Declassified documents show that Rumsfeld traveled to Baghdad at a time when Iraq was using chemical weapons on an "almost daily" basis in defiance of international conventions.... ...The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that had both military and civilian applications, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic plague.... ...In December 1988, Dow Chemical sold $1.5 million of pesticides to Iraq, despite U.S. government concerns that they could be used as chemical warfare agents.... truthout.org

To: Softechie who wrote (5425)	2/4/2003 12:19:31 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29597

US supplied both Iran and Iraq directly and indirectly to try to maintain a stalemate in their war. Iran overran eastern Iraq in their counterattack with human waves against Iraq's superior weapons. Also, had the Saudis and Kuwaitis flood the oil market to starve them of oil revenues for their war. That was one of the reasons why Iraq attacked Kuwait. What was Germany and Frnace's execuse for arming Iraq in the 90s? Just greed. ----------------- from another source: France became the major source of Iraq's high-tech weaponry, in no small part to protect its financial stake in that country.<2> The Soviet Union was Iraq's largest weapon's supplier, while jockeying for influence in both capitals. Israel provided arms to Iran, hoping to bleed the combatants by prolonging the war. And at least ten nations sold arms to both of the warring sides.<3> The list of countries engaging in despicable behavior, however, would be incomplete without the United States. The U.S. objective was not profits from the arms trade, but the much more significant aim of controlling to the greatest extent possible the region's oil resources.