"...I think you're willfully ignorant of where Saddam got the precursors for the gas he used to kill a million of his people..."
Translation: "O
K, ya got me. I asked how many Muslims were killing each other in Iraq prior to 2003 and forgot about all this, and you called me on it, and I lost that round."
I know exactly where Saddam got the precursor materials for his chemical weapons.
None of that effectively deflects attention away from the fact that your '
how many Muslims were killing each other prior to 2003' point got hosed good-and-proper.
Moving on...
Saddam was given those materials for a variety of uses, including, quite possibly, use against the Iranians, in the Iran-Iraq War.
Nobody involved in such a transfer of materials dreamed - in their wildest dreams - that Saddam would turn those weapons against his
own people!!!
And, in the final analysis...
It doesn't matter one good goddamn who GAVE him the materials to make the weapons...
What
DOES matter is who made the decision to
USE the fucking things, once constructed, and who made the decision to use them
INTERNALLY, against his
OWN...
None of that decision-making has anything whatsoever to do with anyone other than the skumbag Muslims who decided to kill each other in such a manner...
It's not the fault of the people who provided the materials...
It's the fault of the people who made the weapons and then turned them against their own kind...
And all the excuse-making and attempted deflection in the world isn't going to change that...