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[zls44]

I normally just ignore him politically (btw, we were randomly assigned), but this one I can't let slip:

http://www.dailycampus.com/news/525384.html

"Commondreams.org reports news that most of us already know. In 1988, Saddam possessed "mustard gas, sarin, VX and other poisonous agents." He used these chemical weapons (that according to liberals "never even existed") that same year to kill some 30,000 citizens, according to the U.S. Department of State."

BTW, in an earlier article...he called commondreams an inaccurate site. Yet he references it.

Note that he DIDNT say who sold Saddam the VX...I know we did. Thats where I need YOUR help.

I need an article or 17 that proves the US sold Saddam the VX. I know theres a Daily Herald one, help me out. Thanks.

[LTR]

1. Google it!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=us+sold+vx+iraq&btnG=Google+Search

[zls44]

2. SCORE!

AND one is FROM commondreams!

[Lars39]

3. Here's an old thread with lots of info.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=12639&forum=DCForumID70&archive=

Hope it helps. :)

[Ramsey]

4. Some links

In this article I wrote for my website:

http://www.literalpolitics.com/NewsDay/October02/oct02-4.htm

[JNelson6563]

5. here's an article

http://www.progressive.org/0901/anth0498.html

Most Americans listening to the President did not know that the United States supplied Iraq with much of the raw material for creating a chemical and biological warfare program. Nor did the media report that U.S. companies sold Iraq more than $1 billion worth of the components needed to build nuclear weapons and diverse types of missiles, including the infamous Scud.

When Iraq engaged in chemical and biological warfare in the 1980s, barely a peep of moral outrage could be heard from Washington, as it kept supplying Saddam with the materials he needed to build weapons.

* Alcolac International, a Baltimore chemical manufacturer already linked to the illegal shipment of chemicals to Iran, shipped large quantities of thiodiglycol (used to make mustard gas) as well as other chemical and biological ingredients, according to a 1989 story in The New York Times.


* Nu Kraft Mercantile Corp. of Brooklyn (affiliated with the United Steel and Strip Corporation) also supplied Iraq with huge amounts of thiodiglycol, the Times reported.

* Celery Corp., Charlotte, NC

* Matrix-Churchill Corp., Cleveland, OH (regarded as a front for the Iraqi government, according to Representative Henry Gonzalez, Democrat of Texas, who quoted U.S. intelligence documents to this effect in a 1992 speech on the House floor).

The following companies were also named as chemical and biological materials suppliers in the 1992 Senate hearings on "United States export policy toward Iraq prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait":

* Mouse Master, Lilburn, GA

* Sullaire Corp., Charlotte, NC

* Pure Aire, Charlotte, NC

* Posi Seal, Inc., N. Stonington, CT

* Union Carbide, Danbury, CT

* Evapco, Taneytown, MD

* Gorman-Rupp, Mansfield, OH

Lots more. Hope this helps.

Julie

[NicoleM]

6. also

1. If the fact that he killed a bunch of people via gas was worth going to war for (and it may well have been AT THE TIME), we should have done it then.

2. Chemical weapons have a shelf life. I'm pretty sure I've read before that whatever he had before would be useless by now.

[ixion]

7. what's ironic about that is that commondreams

republishes articles first printed by other rags, so it's an obviously biased attack...