[vbmoneyspender]

I would like to see the source for the contention that we sold Iraq any conventional weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. There is no source provided in this article for that contention and I don't think it is true. Our hands are clean in that regard. The only contention I have ever heard about us selling conventional weapons to Iraq during the war was that William Casey sued some front company in Chile to sell a small amount of weapons to Hussein, but I have never seen a verified source for that contention/rumor.

[pragmatic_asian]

Oh please. It's not like our shit is completely odor free.

This is a chart on who sold Iraq conventional weapons and how much: http://projects.sipri.se/armstrade/Trnd_Ind_IRQ_Imps_73-02.pdf

This file is the register of the transfers and licensed production of major conventional weapons to Iraq: http://projects.sipri.se/armstrade/IRQ_IMPRTS_73-02.pdf

All told, we only sold Iraq $200 million dollars worth of conventional weapons and gave them some intelligence. By the time the US had started selling weapons to Saddam, the Soviets had already transfered $14 billions worth of weapons. That played a much greater role in creating Saddam than the US ever did or would do. The leftist idiots who keep saying that the world is a complicated place never really actually do the complex thinking need to analyze it. The simply blame the US, conservatives, religion, etc...