Iraqi Weapons Imports (1973-1990) Facts Speak For Themselves.

Command-Post ^ | ME

[chudogg]

The source for this infomation comes from the Stockholm International Peace Research Insitute at SIPRI.org.

You can see the source for that information here

You can see that the U.S. arm sales were from 83-88, And even then they were miniscule when compared to the Soviet Union and France.

[chudogg]

This begs me to ask exactly who ARMED Saddam Hussein?

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[Frank_Discussion]

Uh, Russia? Oh wait, they're just our bestest buddies now, right? < sarcasm mode >

[JohnGalt]

Marianne Gasior maintains that the Lafarge Corporation, the U.S. Subsidiary of a French multinational chemicals concern, provided key services for the covert arms export network that supplied Saddam Hussein. To prevent exposure of that secret supply line, and collateral damage to Hillary Clinton-who joined Lafarge board in 1990, just as the arms pipeline was being shut down-Gasior alleges that the justice department was told to bury the investigation. John Hogan hotly denies this. But investigators from other U.S. government agencies who worked on the case say they were "waved off" whenever they got too close to exposing the direct involvement of the intelligence community in the arms export scheme.

Whatever happened to Iraqgate?

[chudogg]

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