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To: sylvester80 who wrote (199956)	8/29/2006 7:52:58 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

Any country with a pesticide industry can make chemical weapons. The germs that were sold are items that are normally sold to universities that want to research them. We probably should exercise much better control over them, but many of them are common and could have been obtained by Iraq even if the US and our closest allies wouldn't give them any. Salmonella, anthrax and e coli could have been obtained internally within Iraq from natural sources. Also they where not sold by or under the direction of Reagan, Bush etc. They where sold by companies that sell them to universities and research institutions all over the world. It wasn't a matter of government policy to support or arm Saddam. Before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Iraq was treated in the same manner as any other country. Only countries with active sanctions against them couldn't buy such things and Iraq wasn't under such sanctions.