Can any NEOCONS remind me who gave Saddam Chemical Weapons to use on the Iranians?

Question

Of course it was easy to claim Iraq had WMD's... WE GAVE IT TO THEM.

Slam Dunk, right?

Answer 1

It's the truth that we helped Saddam in the 1980-88 war with Iran because we hated Iran worse at the time! It's also a fact that we helped & armed Osama in his war with the Russian invaders because we hated Russia worse than Osama! It all helps to keep the 'militay-industrial complex' that pres. Eisenhower warned us about,alive & well! And a heavy contributor to the war-mongerin' republicans!

Answer 2

We did of course. Same as we armed the Taliban, and the Contras, and numerous other people.

Speaking of the Iran/Iraq war, who was the president that authorized that? Jimmy Carter, Democrat 1979. Who dropped the atomic bomb? Harry Truman, Democrat 1945. Who firebombed Dresden? Harry truman, Democrat 1945. Who got us into Vietnam in a serious manner as other than advisors? Lyndon Johnson, Democrat 1963.

Have we as a country made several mistakes? Of course we have. The question isnt where do you place the blame, the question is how do you fix the problem. During the Cold War we used third world countries to fight via proxy against the USSR. Why? Because direct confrontation between us and Russia had the VERY real possibility of going nuclear. Russia did the same thing via Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam, Chechnya you name it.

In the modern world the nuclear threat doesnt come from Russia or even China, it comes from governments with links to terrorism. But forget nuclear stuff, just on the conventional front Muslim extremism is the most dangerous threat to the world since Hitler. Take the thing with the Pope last week where he quoted someone else as saying Muslims/Mohammed were violent in nature. And how did they respond? They proved his point by killing a freakin nun.

Answer 3

Right Don't remind me. G H W Bush (41) asked me or My Skull&Bones bank to front Saddam $80 B for weapons. The punk stiffed me never paid back a cent. So G W (43) went in with a little message from the the Bonesmen, "You don't renage on the Tomb"

Answer 4

It was the US & UK. 1st he tried them out on his own Kurdish people , rec'd a severe tsk,tsk, from the US, so he turned the rest on Iran. Giving this s*it to Iraq was in violation of the Geneva convention, but so what/ When Bush was asked how he knew Saddam had WMDs ,his reply was,"We kept the receipts".

Answer 5

What is your point ?

Are you going to be off your meds tomorrow and say that we found no wmd's in Iraq or maybe we did pending on your state of medication .

Answer 6

We did give him weapons. Don't recall him ever using chemical weapon against Iran, and doubt that he did, because Iran would have love opening to use stockpile they must have. there is one country in Mideast that will sell you anything if price is right.

Answer 7

He shoots he scores...three points dude...nothing but net...

Yes, we do agree he had them pre-Gulf War. Has everyone forgotten all the sarin gas that we piled up and destroyed and practically poisoned ourselves. Remember the Czech chemical detection unit picked up the sarin gas???

We did a pretty thorough job destroying his stockpiles of gas. And if he had these stockpiles in 2003 it would have been all over the news....and of course it wasn't....

Answer 8

Of course you have proof of the above statement, or are you just spouting political rhetoric you heard from the uneducated left wing democraps.

Answer 9

I believe either Cheney or Rumsfield went to Baghdad to negotiate the transfer of those weapons to Iraq

Answer 10

The world political stage isn't static, with the fall of the Iron Curtain, our enemies in the USSR were disolved, and other threats were greater.