From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 20:01:32 MST
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Subject: U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup...
> Notice the section stating that the "administrations of Ronald Reagan
> and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that
> had both military and civilian applications, including poisonous
> chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic
> plague."
This should not be allowed to just drop off our
radar screens. Either the U.S. did or did not
authorize the sale of deadly biological viruses
to a third-world country.
Lee
> U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup
> Trade in Chemical Arms Allowed Despite Their Use on Iranians, Kurds
> By Michael Dobbs
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Monday, December 30, 2002; Page A01
> High on the Bush administration's list of justifications for war against
> Iraq are President Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons, nuclear and
> biological programs, and his contacts with international terrorists.
> What U.S. officials rarely acknowledge is that these offenses date back
> to a period when Hussein was seen in Washington as a valued ally.
> Among the people instrumental in tilting U.S. policy toward Baghdad
> during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war was Donald H. Rumsfeld, now defense
> secretary, whose December 1983 meeting with Hussein as a special
> presidential envoy paved the way for normalization of U.S.-Iraqi
> relations. Declassified documents show that Rumsfeld traveled to Baghdad
> at a time when Iraq was using chemical weapons on an "almost daily"
> basis in defiance of international conventions.
> For the rest of this article see
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52241-2002Dec29?language=print
> er
> Comment:
> Notice the section stating that the "administrations of Ronald Reagan
> and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that
> had both military and civilian applications, including poisonous
> chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic
> plague." If this is true, then should not also the people behind these
> transfers be punished for putting America in danger? What do you think?
> -- Dan
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