Just because we seem to like some of the conclusions in some of the stories doesn't mean any real work or fact checking has actually been done by Irvine's group.
Mine didn't refer to a Reed Irvine report.
Rumsfeld notwithstanding, there has never been any question that suppliers like American Culture Depository, under contract from the CDC, shipped anthrax cultures (among others) to Iraq in the eighties.
However, this was the kind of exchange conducted routinely with agricultural colleges and public health authorities in scores of nations.
Anybody that asserts "the U.S. provided Iraq with bioweapons" fails to recognize that a research sample is far removed from a production-run of weaponized spores. It is akin to claiming that "the U.S. provided Japan with the bombs they dropped on Pearl Harbor", simply because we sold the Japanese scrap iron.