progaspie wrote:
Don't know where you get your information from. There is a ban on the sale of chemical weapons under the UN charter, that would have been in force in the 1980's. Saddam was importing the chemical precursors for chemical weapons from all over the world, including Germany, his main supplier and turning those chemicals into the chemical weapons he unleashed against the Kurks. When the rest of the world, found out what he was doing, they banned sales of those chemical precursors to Iraq. Do you honestly think that the U.S. would knowingly export chemical weapons to Iraq, a country that sits perilously close to Israel, America's main ally in the Middle East?
Most of the trade in weapons (and materials to make weapons) in the third world occurs through third parties. You are incredibly naive to think American arms dealers and the CIA operates openly and follows the Geneva convention. The bans imposed during the Gulf war on iraq and their "mythical" weapons of mass destruction did not stop the supply of weapons from western countries (with full knowledge of the CIA ) to Iraq prior to Saddam's foray into Kuwait way back in 1990.
I'm not suggesting the Saddam Hussein was a saint or that the Americans were wrong to remove him, the point is the US has acted in their self interest and operated covertly in their dealing with regimes in this region. This really shouldn't be a great shock to anyone (even you?) given the track record of CIA or military operations in countries like Cuba, Chile, Laos, Cambodia or Vietnam where war crimes and assassinations were committed in the name of US interests.
13 Oct 2014, 5:56 am
