LOL. Look at you? Still posting your one, two, three year old out of date links that no one in our government ever verifies?
Here is a link that our government does verify:
http://www.casi.org.uk/info/usdocs/usiraq80s90s.html
China’s current imports from Iran are about 229,000 barrels per-day but it intends to increase this significantly once the over land pipeline through Central Asia has been completed. After opposing Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, Japan lost the exclusive right to develop the new Azadegan field in Iran which is now being opened up to European and Asian firms including Chinese firms. [36]
In 1980, Iraq invaded Iran and began an eight year long conflict which caused two million dead and wounded on both sides. In that war, both sides attacked with short-range ballistic missiles and sought to develop nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons for use against the other.
China sold weapons to both Iran and Iraq during and after the war. These military sales by China provided hard currency earnings for the Chinese military industrial complex and a means of developing close relations with two oil-rich dictatorships, which could help to meet China’s oil, needs in the present and future. Both Iran and Iraq wanted to develop increasingly destructive weapons for mutual deterrence or battlefield use if another war should occur. They were also both hostile to the United States and its allies in the region.
In 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. The United States led a broad coalition in 1990-91 to enforce UN Security Council resolutions requiring Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. This meant that the United States and several of its NATO allies had to face the possibility of dealing with an opponent that might use chemical, or biological weapons as well as ballistic missiles.
In 1997 the Office of Naval Intelligence stated: “discoveries after the Gulf war clearly indicate that Iraq maintained an aggressive WMD [weapons of mass destruction] procurement program. A similar program exists today in Iran, with a steady flow of materials and technologies from China to Iran. This exchange is one of the most active WMD programs in the third world …” [37] . In succeeding years, the public congressional testimony of the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency indicated that China and Russia continued the active proliferation of weapons of mass destruction technology, expertise and components to a number of hostile and potentially dangerous countries including Iran, Iraq, and North Korea [38] .
Although the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq did fire a number of ballistic missiles in 1991, it was deterred by threats of massive retaliation from using chemical or biological warheads. But the fact that 400,000 US and allied troops had faced this threat for many months added impetus to the expressed policy of the first Bush administration that preventing the spread of these weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them was one of the highest priority concerns of US foreign policy.
As China shifted in 1990 to the view that the United States was its “main enemy”, it viewed the sale of components for weapons of mass destruction and the sale of technical assistance in building these to Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Libya and other states hostile to the United States, as not only financially profitable but also a way to strengthen the enemies of its “main enemy”. During the 1990s a great deal of government information became public in the United States about first Chinese and then later Chinese and Russian activities in transferring weapons of mass destruction to the main state sponsors of terrorism [39] .
During the 1990s and since, China has provided Iran with ballistic missile components as well as air, land and ship-based cruise missiles. By 2001, the Director of DIA, testified that “ these along with Iran’s submarines, mines, and missile patrol boats can attack ships including US naval forces in the Middle East “and stem the flow of oil from the [Persian Gulf] for brief periods” [40] . China also sent Iran key ingredients for the development of nuclear weapons, poison gas production ingredients; rocket propellants, and a “research” nuclear reactor. The CIA noted that in 1999 Iran “continued to seek production technology, training, expertise, and chemicals that could be used as precursor agents in its chemical warfare program from entities in Russia and China” [41] .
In 2001, the newly inaugurated Bush Administration publicly accused Chinese organizations of breaking UN Security Council prohibitions by providing advanced fiber optics support for the military command and control systems of Iraq [42] . During the 1990s, China reportedly provided ingredients that Iraq used for nerve gases, missiles and nuclear weapons, and China also sold Iraq chemicals that are used to produce missile fuel [43] . There had been no United Nations inspection of Iraq since the autumn of 1998 when Saddam Hussein refused to cooperate any longer with the inspection system that had been set up under the terms of the UN Security Council Resolutions. As permanent members of the Security Council, China and Russia colluded to undo the inspection regime and to delay its resumption until November 2002.
You have a problem with facts, don't you? Some of those articles are written this year, some last. Some in the 90's.
Amazing that everyone was all worried that OBL and Saddam were working together in the 90's and 100's of newspaper articles were witten about it. Now that it's a political matter, everyone wants to deny what they already knew. LOL