Saddams Chemical Weapons

I've always heard and assumed that the rumors of the U.S. being the sole supplier of Saddams chemical weapons as a true statement based on it's war with Iran........lesser of two evils thing. Been doing a bit of reading on the issue..........lol

According to Iraq's report to the UN, the know-how and material for developing chemical weapons were obtained from firms in such countries as: the United States, West Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the People's Republic of China.[38]

In December 2002, Iraq's 1,200 page Weapons Declaration revealed a list of Eastern and Western corporations and countries, as well as individuals, that exported a total of 17,602 tons of chemical precursors to Iraq in the past two decades. By far, the largest suppliers of precursors for chemical weapons production were in Singapore (4,515 tons), the Netherlands (4,261 tons), Egypt (2,400 tons), India (2,343 tons), and Federal Republic of Germany (1,027 tons). One Indian company, Exomet Plastics (now part of EPC Industrie) sent 2,292 tons of precursor chemicals to Iraq. The Kim Al-Khaleej firm, located in Singapore and affiliated to United Arab Emirates, supplied more than 4,500 tons of VX, sarin, and mustard gas precursors and production equipment to Iraq.[39]

According to Iraq's declarations, it had procured 340 pieces of equipment used for the production of chemical weapons. More than half came from Germany, the remainder mostly from France, Spain, and Austria. [6] In addition, Iraq declared that it imported more than 200,000 munitions made for delivering chemicals, 75,000 came from Italy, 57,500 from Spain, 45,000 from China, and 28,500 from Egypt. [7]
Iran-Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you care to look at the link it seems that the U.S. was a VERY SMALL player in "setting up" Saddam with any type of weapons..........You'll also notice that the big time sales were coming out of France, China, Russia....the same countries that were REALLY against us invading Iraq........LOL, I wonder why that is????

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I tell you them old pictures do get blurry..

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Originally Posted by eg420ne

I tell you them old pictures do get blurry..

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YIPPER, they sure do...........LOL

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Uhhhh, No WMDs and No ties to al-Queda, it's a big mystery eh. Poof, they just disappeared. Maybe he had gotten rid of them, just like the weapons inspectors claimed. If you tell someone to get rid of them and your inspectors can't find any, maybe he got rid of them. Wait, thats right, He had stashed all those deadly chemicals under his bed at his castles, cause he had a psychological death wish, ~LOL~. Get over it, we invaded for wrong reasons. Sadam was an asshole, he's gone and now it's time for us to be gone also. By being there we are enabling the sectarian violence. 80% of the country wants us gone, we are the invading enemy just like China would be if they were on our streets, raping and pillaging, and blowing shit up. Let the oil Barons fight their own battles, they have the blackwater army, let those assholes fight for the oil and bring our troops home. Without our troops to back them up, Blackwater would be eradicated in days, justifiably so! Iraqi oil is for Iraqis. They will sell it to us, but not for 15% like the US oil companies want.

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Originally Posted by medicinal

Get over it, we invaded for wrong reasons.

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this seems to imply that there was a right reason for the war. i'm curious as to what you might consider that to be, given your rabidly cut and run attitudes.

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Originally Posted by medicinal

Uhhhh, No WMDs and No ties to al-Queda, it's a big mystery eh. Poof, they just disappeared. Maybe he had gotten rid of them, just like the weapons inspectors claimed.

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"Well, there ya go again"...LOL This wasn't even about all that; it was just to point out that the evil neo-cons in the U.S. weren't the only ones supplying that great leader in Iraq. In fact, we were kind of at the bottom of the chain as far as the $ figure in supplies. Imagine that??:D

As far as the inspectors were concerned........their last report stated that Saddam was playing the shell game with them. We found undisclosed underground facilities.......why not let the inspectors know of these since they were empty?? :smokin:

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Originally Posted by delusionsofNORMALity

this seems to imply that there was a right reason for the war. i'm curious as to what you might consider that to be, given your rabidly cut and run attitudes.

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As far as I can see, there was no right reason, so your assumption is incorrect.

Oh Oh Oh who remembers Colin Powell holding up this picture!

So in the 80s Iraq attacks Iran and America helps out the attacker mmmm so who is the Axis of evil again???

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Originally Posted by fishman3811

So in the 80s Iraq attacks Iran and America helps out the attacker mmmm so who is the Axis of evil again???

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The U.S. plus Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan just to name a few. That whole Sunni region was in fear of the Shi-ites coming across the desert.

BUT....who supplied the majority of the chemicals????

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