Sorry. Iraq was crippled by 2 decades of war and sanctions. They had no WMDs. This was all about clean Break Strategy. Operation Mass Appeal was launched in the UK in a massive propaganda effort lead by sir Derek Plumbly after his total fuck up with the November 2000 booze wars in Arabia.
They were setting the Palestinians up to take the blame, but when they started blowing up other Brits they got caught.
"The US provided less conventional military equipment than British or German companies but it did allow the export of biological agents, including anthrax; vital ingredients for chemical weapons; and cluster bombs sold by a CIA front organisation in Chile, the report says.
Intelligence on Iranian troop movements was provided, despite detailed knowledge of Iraq's use of nerve gas.
Rick Francona, an ex-army intelligence lieutenant-colonel who served in the US embassy in Baghdad in 1987 and 1988, told the Guardian: "We believed the Iraqis were using mustard gas all through the war, but that was not as sinister as nerve gas.
"They started using tabun [a nerve gas] as early as '83 or '84, but in a very limited way. They were probably figuring out how to use it. And in '88, they developed sarin."
On November 1 1983, the secretary of state, George Shultz, was passed intelligence reports of "almost daily use of CW [chemical weapons]" by Iraq.
However, 25 days later, Ronald Reagan signed a secret order instructing the administration to do "whatever was necessary and legal" to prevent Iraq losing the war.
In December Mr Rumsfeld, hired by President Reagan to serve as a Middle East troubleshooter, met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and passed on the US willingness to help his regime and restore full diplomatic relations."
Declassified papers leave the White House hawk exposed over his role during the Iran-Iraq war.
www.theguardian.com
By the time Bush the Younger invaded most all those WMD we helped with, were either used, destroyed or were lost and were rapidly deteriorating and were no threat to the worlds remaining super power.
