When, how & where did the myth that US & UK were major arms suppliers to Iraq gain credance?

Question

The US sold some dual use helicopters to Iraq. At best they could have been used as air ambulances. The then Warsaw Pact sold T82, T72 tanks & loads more bits that kill & go bang. The French sold Roland radar defences & Mirage planes. Look at the footage from the |Iran/Iraq war, the first Gulf war & the 2003 intervention. Then check Janes Big Guns or whatever. See Wiki for more details. Chinese Silkworm, SCUD, missiles;the list goes on. The US sold or gave arms to many tyrants, this just was not one of them.
The Russians & French have still not been paid. My Russian, French & Iraqi friends are aware of the origins of the arms. Where & how did the story change?

Answer 1

Good question. I've always wondered the same thing. Sipri.org has a very good history of who armed Iraq. The USA ranks right up there with Denmark on countries who supplied arms to Saddam. I have yet to see one person condemning those evil greedy Danes for their role in Saddam's rise to power.

Answer 2

How do you think they bought a lot of those weapons from Russia, France, China, etc? With US money.

Oh, and those WMDs that Saddam used? The supposed main reason why we invaded? The US shipped very large amounts of chemical and biological agents used in those WMDs. Another reason why it was BS that we invaded, we gave him the necessary materials to make the WMDs in the first place.

The majority of the hardware we gave to Iraq was dual-use items like mainframe computers, helicopters, and chemicals........things that could be used for civilian applications but just as easily used for military applications.

Oh, and one of those biological agents that Iraq got from the US? ANTHRAX.

Don't know much about UK contributions, but the US definitely was involved, and it's not any big secret.

Answer 3

Dont know. Its the french who do the supplying to Iraq with most of Iranian arms coming from Russia until recently.
Lets face it most countries get arms through big business via someone elses back door.

Answer 4

no count number what the Dems reported it develop into GWB and DC that led the initiative to bypass to conflict. and they did it with deception. a million) reported there have been WMD's.........BOGUS 2) reported that Iraq develop into invlve in 911......Bogus ( surely they were Saudi, who the trees have close ties to. 3) we favor to eliminate Hussein from place of work....... BS 4) Hussein develop into killing his own human beings..... this can be, yet weren't different dictators killing their human beings to boot, why did not we invade them.???? In previous due February 2002, the CIA despatched former Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look at comments (later discovered to be forgeries) that Iraq develop into attempting to purchase further yellowcake from Niger. Wilson lower back and recommended the CIA that comments of yellowcake sales to Iraq were "unequivocally incorrect." The Bush administration, although, persevered to allege Iraq's tries to receive further yellowcake were a justification for protection force action, maximum prominently contained in the January, 2003, State of the Union address, in which President Bush declared that Iraq had sought uranium, stating British intelligence components.[88] After study following the invasion, the U.S.-led Iraq Survey crew concluded that Iraq had ended its nuclear, chemical, and organic and organic courses in 1991 and had no energetic courses on the time of the invasion, yet that they meant to renew production if the Iraq sanctions were lifted.[fifty 4] even although some degraded remnants of lost or abandoned chemical guns from earlier 1991 were discovered, they were no longer the guns that were the numerous argument to justify the invasion.[fifty 5] some US officials also accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of harboring and assisting al-Qaeda,[fifty six] yet no evidence of a significant connection develop into ever discovered.[fifty seven][fifty 8] different proclaimed motives for the invasion coated Iraq's economic help for the households of Palestinian suicide bombers,[fifty 9] Iraqi authorities human rights abuses,[60] and an attempt to spread democracy to the country.[sixty one][sixty 2]

Answer 5

They did to some extent, but ever wonder, where the AK-47
and RPG,s are coming from ,Neither the US or the UK make
either of these weapons, why are they the Terrorist weapons
of choice.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war

http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/arming_iraq.php

you have to understand that we backed Iraq against Iran in the Iran-Iraq war

Answer 7

yet another myth of the left. they insisted that Reagan caused the S&L crises when he deregulated them, too..even tho it was Jimmy Carter who did that