To: hmaly who wrote (182363 ) 2/10/2004 12:09:55 AM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to Ted Re..This all happened under the Reagan/Bush administrations......you know on the video when you see Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam....... However, at that time the US had a working relationship with Saddam. That changed suddenly in 91 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. After the 91 gulf war, when it was learned how massive Iraq's WMD program was, it was decided to make Iraq get rid of its WMD weapons as part of the truce. As you stated most of it happened during the Reagon and Bush senior administrations. However, those administrations were over in 92. Germany however, continued to sell massive amounts of WMD to Iraq, against the UN sanctions imposed after the Gulf war. The US mostly stopped. And that is Germany's big problem. They voted, along with the US and most other nations for the UN sanctions, however, Germany kept on selling WMD in secret. From Asia Times. before the war?In the summer of 1994, the BND conducted a major study to estimate the magnitude of the - as at that time - still undeclared and concealed Iraqi WMD arsenal, relying on sales records in its possession of post-Gulf War German, Austrian, and Swiss exports of technologies, sub-systems and strategic materials to Iraq. It concluded that these exports pointed to several specific weapons programs, ranging from ballistic missile upgrades to poison gas manufacture, which Iraq had not declared and UN inspectors were unaware of and hence, not surprisingly, had failed to discover. While the magnitude of the current (1994) Iraqi weapons program "is difficult to assess", said the BND, there is no doubt that "some of the material and equipment" has eluded discovery and certain projects "are being revived and run clandestinely".
