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To: i-node who wrote (161421)	2/18/2003 2:30:22 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574848

This argument is utter crap. The reality is that those items which WERE made available to Saddam were done so for humanitarian purposes. The fact that Saddam misappropriated them is unfortunate, but frankly, anyone we give this kind of help to could do the same thing. Utter crap? It is? You mean in the 80s when we gave Saddam anthrax, poisonous chemicals and the botulism toxin, we thought he was working on the cure for cancer? When we gave him machine tools and computers [also in the 80s], are you telling me we believed he was working on a plan to eradicate world hunger? When Bush Sr. quietly signed the National Security Directive Number 26 right after he entered office, a document which enabled Saddam to get nuclear components, was it because we believed it was to replace the nuclear reactor that the dastardly Israelis had taken out in the early 80s and for which they were roundly condemned by Mr. Reagan? I guess we all knew Saddam wanted a reactor so that his people could be kept warm at night by cheap electricity. All of this had happened after Iraq had started a war with Iran and had begun a genocidal program against the Kurds. What part of "the last thing Saddam is is a humanitarian did Bush Sr., Reagan and Rumsfield [and you] not get?! You may be blinded by your adoration but I am not.....nor am I convinced that the above gentlemen thought Saddam was a great guy and would do only good things with the stuff we gave him. fff.org ted