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To: geode00 who wrote (199954)	8/29/2006 7:46:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

According to Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, in a December 15, 1986 article, the CIA began to secretly supply Iraq with intelligence in 1984 that was used to "calibrate" mustard gas attacks on Iranian troops. Beginning in early 1985, the CIA provided Iraq with "data from sensitive US satellite reconnaissance photography ... to assist Iraqi bombing raids". According to Woodward. Just because he says it doesn't automatically mean its true. More importantly even if it is true it doesn't amount to the US giving poison gas or the ability to make poison gas to Iraq. Mustard gas is WWI technology. Iraq had it already as your quote attests. They used it to attack Iran, and then supposedly we gave them information about the impact of the attacks. That might have been a questionable action but it isn't providing them with chemical weapons. It is believed that US-supplied choppers were used in the 1988 chemical attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja, which killed 5000 people.... Possibly. But if they didn't use the 60 American helicopters they had 100's of others to choose from. Is Ford responsible when bank robber's use one of its cars as a get away car? Is Colt responsible if the robbers use one of it's guns?