BlindBoo
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Liberals didn't like Reagan giving stuff to Saddam to fight our enemy Iran back in the 80s....but they have no problem with Obamination giving weapons to terrorists in Egypt, Libya and Syria......fucking insanity.
In the 80s....Saddam wasn't our enemy. In 2012....islamic terrorists are our enemy and have been for decades, long before Reagan supported Saddam.
If President Obama policies helped supplied the rebels in any ME country with what the West supplied Saddam with as a result of President Rayguns policy then both Cons and Lib should be upset. Not to mention them selling Iran missiles and illegally diverting the profits to the Contra Mercenaries.
"...not only did Ronald Reagans Washington turn a blind-eye to the Hussein regimes repeated use of chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers and Iraqs Kurdish minority, but the US helped Iraq develop its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs."
How Reagan Armed Saddam with Chemical Weapons » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Iraq's 11,000-page report to the UN Security Council lists 150 foreign companies, including some from America, Britain, Germany and France, that supported Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program, a German newspaper said yesterday.
Berlin's left-wing Die Tageszeitung newspaper said it had seen a copy of the original Iraqi dossier which was vetted for sensitive information by US officials before being handed to the five permanent Security Council members two weeks ago. An edited version was passed to the remaining 10 members of the Security Council last night.
British officials said the list of companies appeared to be accurate. Eighty German firms and 24 US companies are reported to have supplied Iraq with equipment and know-how for its weapons programs from 1975 onwards and in some cases support for Baghdad's conventional arms program had continued until last year.
It is not known who leaked the report, but it could have come from Iraq. Baghdad is keen to embarrass the US and its allies by showing the close involvement of US, German, British and French firms in helping Iraq develop its weapons of mass destruction when the country was a bulwark against the much feared spread of Iranian revolutionary fervor to the Arab world.
The list contained the names of long-established German firms such as Siemens as well as US multinationals. With government approval, Siemens exported machines used to eliminate kidney stones which have a "dual use" high precision switch used to detonate nuclear bombs. Ten French companies were also named along with a number of Swiss and Chinese firms. The newspaper said a number of British companies were cited, but did not name them.
Leaked Report Says German and US Firms Supplied Arms to Saddam
ah cool, maybe shallow can provide you a benediction, wave his arms over you , or others who insist by doing what you just did, in attempting to make excuses for the hypocrisy.
Either you don't have a problem sppting thru use of arms, foreign nationalists or, you do. Either you are down with the gut check level slimy game of Geo-politics or, you're not.
I am all for it, I thought reagans iran-contra thing was genious, sell arms to one batch of maniacs to kill the other, then use the proceeds to arm an anti commie paramilitary.
I had and said so, no issue with obama selling giving guns to anti Assad forces BUT , as I noted then, it was too late, we had waited to long and we had blown our opportunity to influence who would wind up ahead at the end when assad falls, thats the flaw and 1 big reason why that reference top AQ and affiliates was wiped from the talking points after Benghazi went down.
I don't think think there is an equlivance between supplying a known monster like Saddam with the means to produce massive stockpile of Chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and supplying rebel forces with conventional weapons. So no benediction necessary.