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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4383)	2/20/2003 6:27:55 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 15987

>>>Don't tell me you need to be reminded that the US was OFFICIALLY SUPPORTING Saddam at about the same time.<<< Surporting Saddam Zonder?? In what way?? Are you denying that the US officially supported Saddam with weapons ranging from conventional to biological, at about the same time as LB and now you are accusing France of selling nuclear technology to Iraq? Please read below: That US support to Iraq was not only commercial but also state policy: State Department cables and court records reveal a wealth of information on how U.S. foreign policy shifted in the 1980s to help Iraq. “In June, 1982, President Reagan decided that the United States could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran. President Reagan decided that the United States would do whatever was necessary and legal to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran. President Reagan formalized this policy by issuing a National Security Decision Directive (“NSDD”) to this effect in June, 1982. I have personal knowledge of this NSDD because I co-authored the NSDD with another NSC Staff Member, Geoff Kemp. The NSDD, including even its identifying number, is classified.” “CIA Director [William] Casey personally spearheaded the effort to ensure that Iraq had sufficient military weapons, ammunition and vehicles to avoid losing the Iran-Iraq war,” the affidavit continued. “Pursuant to the secret NSDD, the United States actively supported the Iraqi war effort by supplying the Iraqis with billions of dollars of credits, by providing U.S. military intelligence and advice to the Iraqis, and by closely monitoring third country arms sales to Iraq to make sure that Iraq had the military weaponry required.” Moreover, says Teicher, the U.S. actually provided military advice to the Iraqis, relaying U.S. intelligence to Saddam from the highest levels of the U.S. government, from President Reagan and then-Vice President Bush, father of the current president. msnbc.com That this support included chemical and biological weapons: Reports by the US Senate's committee on banking, housing and urban affairs -- which oversees American exports policy -- reveal that the US, under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Snr, sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, as well as germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia. Other bacteria sold included brucella melitensis, which damages major organs, and clostridium perfringens, which causes gas gangrene. sundayherald.com List of US companies involved (including nuclear technology sales): zmag.org So my point to LindyBill stands: Don't tell me you need to be reminded that the US was OFFICIALLY SUPPORTING Saddam at about the same time ['81, when France sold nuclear technology to Iraq] You are free to argue, of course, that US did not sell nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare material to Iraq, or that. It will be interesting to read.