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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (12329)	2/24/2003 9:47:35 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 25898

Mistakes can and should be corrected, even if your assertions were all true....to require otherwise is simply head in the sand foolishness.....

To: zonder who wrote (12329)	2/24/2003 9:57:16 AM
From: Vitas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

>>>It would be a good first step to accept that they were sold in the first place. That would destroy Bush's argument that "he is evil, a monster who used chemical weapons, and so we need to invade", for the US knew full well what his character was when they supported him against Iran, and sold them the agents he used in gassing people.<<< that is like saying that since we gave you a driver's license we can't take it away from you now that you have been caught driving drunk BRILLIANT!

To: zonder who wrote (12329)	2/24/2003 8:15:27 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

There is no question that the US, among some other countries, sold Iraq both the material and the know how necessary for its chemical and biological warfare programs. Phrased that way I have no problem with what you're saying. Yes we did and that was a big mistake. I just don't like the jump to the claim that we gave Saddam chemical weapons. We don't even deploy chemical weapons ourselves. As to where else biological materials might have been transferred to, I wouldn't know. But I did note the on the ATCC site that Cobaltblue posted on another thread that several countries were listed. I recall Taiwan off the top of my head. It is just very annoying to hear this denial all the time - no we never helped him, etc. Especially annoying when coupled with the holier-thanb-thou attitude of your administration - we are good, they are evil, And its annoying to me to hear our involvment with Saddam grossly misrepresented and exaggerated.