Did we supply raw materials, technical expertise, fully assembled weapons, or nothing at all. I'm curious about what companies were involved, and which politicians were involved.
2006-12-26 09:52:51 · 6 answers · asked by professional student 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
In the early 1980s the US supplied Iraq with 'dual-use' chemicals (the same chemicals that are used to make pesticides are used to make nerve gas).
We banned the sale of these chemicals when Saddam's chemical weapons program was discovered.
This is another case of 20/20 hindsight. We also supplied live viruses to Iraq and many other countries with the intention that they be used for vaccine production. Should we have refused to supply these viruses to any country - and made vaccines impossible for them to get?
There is a strong popular mythology that the US supplied weapons to Iraq. This can be easily debunked by challenging those people claiming this to identify one US made weapon in the Iraqi inventory.
2006-12-26 10:26:20 · answer #1 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apart from supplying chemicals to make nerve gas and mustard gas, the US supplied Saddam with anthrax.
But the main US assistance during the 1980s was in the form of military intelligence by Awacs flying from Saudi Arabia and the blockading of Iranian oil tankers.
All of this was going on while Saddam was gassing his own citizens but he was very carefully not charged with any of these crimes at his recent trial to prevent evidence of this assistance being presented in court.
2006-12-26 17:49:54 · answer #2 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Raw materials and assembled weapons, along with instructions.
Politicians? The Reagan Administration. which at the time, included a younger Donald Rumsfeld.
Take a look.. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
2006-12-26 10:00:25 · answer #3 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We supplied complete, off-the-shelf, finished weapons. Bush 41, and Rumsfeld come to mind without research.
2006-12-26 09:55:52 · answer #4 · answered by bettysdad 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It would not matter because at that time we were allies with Iraq not enemies, furthermore the amount of materials that Iraq got from France, Russia and China all outnumber what they got from the U.S. itself.
I got a question for you, suppose you trained a Friend how to use a Machine Gun then you guys quit being Friends and he threatens to kill you, do you let him kill you because you trained him how to use that Gun?
I figure your answer would be no.
2006-12-26 09:58:32 · answer #5 · answered by MrCool1978 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
from what an Egyptian told me are govt supplied them with guns and bombs. he said we should of stayed out of it. i guess if you think about it we should have left them with swards only. they are not mad at the Americans, they hate are govt. to hurt the govt they will try to destroy us.
2006-12-26 10:04:14 · answer #6 · answered by loretta 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋