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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 1430706" data-attributes="member: 17969"><p>There is no conflicting information. THE USA gave Hussein his mustard gas, his saryn gas and biological agents. The record is VERY CLEAR.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Chemical and biological exports[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war&action=edit&section=5" target="_blank">edit</a>]</strong></span></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bacillus_anthracis_Gram.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Bacillus_anthracis_Gram.jpg/200px-Bacillus_anthracis_Gram.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>Iraq purchased 8 strains of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax" target="_blank">anthrax</a> from the United States in 1985, according to British biological weapons expert <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)" target="_blank">David Kelly</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-27" target="_blank">[27]</a> The Iraqi military settled on the American Type Culture Collection strain 14578 as the exclusive strain for use as a biological weapon, according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duelfer" target="_blank">Charles Duelfer</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-28" target="_blank">[28]</a></p><p>On February 9, 1994, Senator Riegle delivered a report -commonly known at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riegle_Report" target="_blank">Riegle Report</a>- in which it was stated that "pathogenic (meaning 'disease producing'), toxigenic (meaning 'poisonous'), and other biological research materials were exported to Iraq pursuant to application and licensing by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Commerce" target="_blank">U.S. Department of Commerce</a>." It added: "These exported biological materials were not attenuated or weakened and were capable of reproduction."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-29" target="_blank">[29]</a></p><p></p><p>The report then detailed 70 shipments (including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_anthracis" target="_blank">Bacillus anthracis</a>) from the United States to Iraqi government agencies over three years, concluding "It was later learned that these microorganisms exported by the United States were identical to those the UN inspectors found and recovered from the Iraqi biological warfare program."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-30" target="_blank">[30]</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_W._Riegle,_Jr." target="_blank">Donald Riegle</a>, Chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Senate_Committee_on_Banking,_Housing,_and_Urban_Affairs" target="_blank">Senate committee</a> that authored the aforementioned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riegle_Report" target="_blank">Riegle Report</a>, said:</p><p></p><p>U.N. inspectors had identified many United States manufactured items that had been exported from the United States to Iraq under licenses issued by the Department of Commerce, and [established] that these items were used to further Iraq's chemical and nuclear weapons development and its missile delivery system development programs. ... The executive branch of our government approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual-use technology to Iraq. I think that is a devastating record.</p><p></p><p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention" target="_blank">U.S. Centers for Disease Control</a> sent Iraq 14 separate agents "with biological warfare significance," according to Riegle's investigators.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-31" target="_blank">[31]</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Despite the desperate attempts by AV8 to deny the FACTS, its a historical FACT that the USA gave saddam his weapons of mass destruction during the 80's.</p><p></p><p>Where is the confusion?</p><p></p><p>TOS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 1430706, member: 17969"] There is no conflicting information. THE USA gave Hussein his mustard gas, his saryn gas and biological agents. The record is VERY CLEAR. [SIZE=4][B]Chemical and biological exports[[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war&action=edit§ion=5']edit[/URL]][/B][/SIZE] [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bacillus_anthracis_Gram.jpg'][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Bacillus_anthracis_Gram.jpg/200px-Bacillus_anthracis_Gram.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Iraq purchased 8 strains of [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax']anthrax[/URL] from the United States in 1985, according to British biological weapons expert [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)']David Kelly[/URL].[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-27'][27][/URL] The Iraqi military settled on the American Type Culture Collection strain 14578 as the exclusive strain for use as a biological weapon, according to [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duelfer']Charles Duelfer[/URL].[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-28'][28][/URL] On February 9, 1994, Senator Riegle delivered a report -commonly known at the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riegle_Report']Riegle Report[/URL]- in which it was stated that "pathogenic (meaning 'disease producing'), toxigenic (meaning 'poisonous'), and other biological research materials were exported to Iraq pursuant to application and licensing by the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Commerce']U.S. Department of Commerce[/URL]." It added: "These exported biological materials were not attenuated or weakened and were capable of reproduction."[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-29'][29][/URL] The report then detailed 70 shipments (including [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_anthracis']Bacillus anthracis[/URL]) from the United States to Iraqi government agencies over three years, concluding "It was later learned that these microorganisms exported by the United States were identical to those the UN inspectors found and recovered from the Iraqi biological warfare program."[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-30'][30][/URL] [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_W._Riegle,_Jr.']Donald Riegle[/URL], Chairman of the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Senate_Committee_on_Banking,_Housing,_and_Urban_Affairs']Senate committee[/URL] that authored the aforementioned [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riegle_Report']Riegle Report[/URL], said: U.N. inspectors had identified many United States manufactured items that had been exported from the United States to Iraq under licenses issued by the Department of Commerce, and [established] that these items were used to further Iraq's chemical and nuclear weapons development and its missile delivery system development programs. ... The executive branch of our government approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual-use technology to Iraq. I think that is a devastating record. The [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention']U.S. Centers for Disease Control[/URL] sent Iraq 14 separate agents "with biological warfare significance," according to Riegle's investigators.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#cite_note-31'][31][/URL] Despite the desperate attempts by AV8 to deny the FACTS, its a historical FACT that the USA gave saddam his weapons of mass destruction during the 80's. Where is the confusion? TOS. [/QUOTE]
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