WHO ARMED IRAQ, 1982-2001 SIPRI(liberal vermin, here's the truth)acrobat file

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ^ | Oct. 14, 2002 | SIPRI

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Click on the link for the page containing the data. Here is the liberal vermin outfit that did this studies' home page.

Here are the countries and the percentage values of the arms they transferred to Iraq during those years.

USSR 50% CHINA 18% FRANCE 13% POLAND 5% CZECH. 5% EGYPT 2% BRAZIL 2% ROMANIA 2% DENMARK 1% LYBIA 1% USA 1%

And the actual percentage the USA sold is less than 1% but because of rounding it is listed as 1%.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

The truth is very revealing. It reveals the that the liberal vermin hate America enough to ignore the truth.

[GrandmaPatriot]

Where is Germany in these figures?

[Porterville]

I emailed drudge on these stats but I don't think he'll do anything with them.

[John H K]

It's non zero but it's even less than the US, and is shown under 0% at the link.

The list is only for finished conventional weapons; not dual-use technology or technology or materials for WMD. The Germans basically sold them no actual weapons.

I'm a bit mystfied that the US even has has high amount as listed; scratching my head trying to figure out what it was. Somehow I wonder if it was US equipment sold to an Arab country and then resold?

[Malcolm]

We tried to "buddy-up" to Iraq in the 80s, as Iran was much more of an enemy after the downfall of the Shah. Why Saddam did not try to use this to his advantage, instead of the opposite, making the US his enemy with the Kuwait invasion of 1991, is puzzling. Maybe he is really that stupid.....

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

They aren't listed and my guess is because they sold them biochemical stuff that is dual use. Pharaceutical/agricultural/poison gas which isn't listed as major convential arms transfers because they aren't technically arms.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[KC Burke]

Interesting percentages to have on hand.

[John H K]

Interesting breakdown, but for some reason, Germany was omitted

No, Germany was NOT omitted..follow the link to the original. The poster just listed the top half.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!

[Brimack34]

That idiot Colmes still will not beleive it. Casper Wineburger tried too tell him that we did not help Iraq that much, he should know he was there. He still did not buy it. He is such a liar.

[ellery]

bttt

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping!

[optimistically_conservative]

Thanks for the post, just to add more context:

Story from AFP / Maxim Kniazkov
Copyright 2002 by Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, 24-Dec-2002 10:40AM PST

The list, obtained by AFP, indicates that German companies were most involved in supplying materials allegedly used in the Iraqi chemical weapons program through the 1980s.
"Major suppliers" include 14 companies from Germany, three from the Netherlands, three from Switzerland, two from the United States, France and Austria, and one each from Spain, Egypt, Singapore, India and Luxemburg.

On a list of "minor suppliers" there were 10 British firms, five German and one each from the United States, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland. There six firms whose nationality was not known.

Leading the roster is the German firm Preussag, which, according to the document, supplied Baghdad with tonnes of precursor chemicals for manufacturing nerve gas, helped it build chemical agent facilities and sold it chemical agent production equipment.

Other German companies include Hoechst, which is accused of supplying 10 tonnes of phosphorus oxychloride, a chemical used to manufacture the nerve gas sarin, and Karl Kolb that provided Iraq assistance in building and equipping a plant used for chemical weapons production, the document said.

Dutch firm KBS shipped more then three thousand tonnes of precursor chemicals between 1982 and 1984. At the same time, British firms Lummus, Gallenkamp, Sigma, Oxoid and others provided laboratory equipment that Iraqi weapons scientists used in perfecting deadly agents, the list indicated.

One of the US suppliers on the list, Alcolac International, which sold Baghdad thiodyglycol, a precursor for mustard gas, has already been prosecuted for violating US export law, according to the roster. Another, Al Haddad, is believed to be no longer in business.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Bump for later.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Thanks for that addition.

[Kay Soze]

Great find!

Thank you!