US help to Saddam in the 80s

[Ortega]

I think this is from an unbiased enough source for all of you, even Castro_Sucks - MSNBC.


Privately, however, the administrations of Reagan and George H.W. Bush sold military goods to Iraq, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological agents, worked to stop the flow of weapons to Iran, and undertook discreet diplomatic initiatives, such as the two Rumsfeld trips to Baghdad, to improve relations with Hussein.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3754726/

http://www.msnbc.com/news/1639839.jpg

[Maynard]

Here (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/morris.htm)
Is about earlier US involvement from an article from the New York Times, which should be mainstream enoughHere (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0818-02.htm) is another from the New York Times

From the Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/...,784313,00.html (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,784313,00.html)

Are good enough. It's pretty much accepted as fact that this is true even by some conservatives. I would like to hear anyone's justification for it.

[Fidel Castro]

There is absolutly no justification for selling chemical agents to an evil tyrant who used them against his own people! The Americans should be extremely ashamed of this and see what happens when they mess around in other nations affairs!

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I would not call MSNBC unbiased
MSNBC = Microsoft and NBC (owned by General Electric)

[Maynard]

Exactly Genghis2003, which makes all this talk about the horror of the gassing of the Kurds or the crimes of Saddam Hussein by US officials complete hypocritical bullshit. If they discuss that, they must discuss there own guilt in it, but of course they won't do that. It should make claims of a humanitarian intervention which they have now focused on since all there other reasons have fallen apart to be extremely dubious to any observer. Which should lead people to the conclusion, what are the real reasons for this war ?

About MSNBC being unbiased, that even further the point Ortega was trying to make. They maybe more biased towards the right, which should give even more credibility to this claims towards any capitalists here. The evidence is all there.

[el_profe]

:o :o I think i posted about this here or maybe somewhere else. Anyway i posted what the US gave saddam in the 1980's I am totally against that. And it is hypocritical of the USA to go after france, germany and russia, after the USA helped Iraq.

[Ortega]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2003, 10:52 AM
About MSNBC being unbiased, that even further the point Ortega was trying to make. They maybe more biased towards the right, which should give even more credibility to this claims towards any capitalists here. The evidence is all there.
Exactly, exactly.

[Maynard]

Good el_profe, you can recognize the truth in this matter but tell me your reasons for why the US went to war then ? If you know that they actively supported his policies at one time, no weapons of mass destruction have been found, no links with Al Qaeda. What is the reason in your mind ?