[Avenger]

"Experts say Iraq used a concoction of substances including concentrated tear gas, mustard gas and the nerve agent VX, shipped by the United States, France and Britain which backed Saddam in his eight-year war with Iran."

Bullsh*t alert. UN and other organizations who studied this concluded that during that period Iraq was largely using mustard gas and tabun to a lesser degree. There was no evidence of VX. Furthermore according to UN studies the mustard gas was produced by the Soviet method which is more advanced compared the the US and Britian methods. Apparently there were dual use chemicals that were shipped by US companies through European intermediaries but this was not sponsored by the U.S. government. The extreme bias of this sort of claim (that largely goes uncontested) is astounding. By looking at the hardware of the Iraqi military (SCUDs, MIGS, T55, Mirage, Exocet, etc.) it is perfectly clear who armed them...the Soviets and the French.

[browardchad]

That jumped out at me, also -- but this is the French press, they had to get their licks/lies in somewhere.