real life wrote:Hi Amigo,
Your assumptions about what I do and do not support and condone are faulty.
I do know this, that America was attacked 4 times ( at least ) by terrorists during the Clinton years, and we did nothing about it.
When the attacks on 9/11 occurred , GWB made a decision to clean out the rats nest that is the Middle East.
Saddam financed and supported terrorists for years, he gassed his own people and filled mass graves with his enemies.
The people of Iraq now have an elected government for the first time in decades.
Has all been good? Of course not.
There's been PLENTY of mistakes made, and if you think that during wartime is the only time that clever and corrupt people figure out a way to suck off the government teat , then you're pretty naive.
We put Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath party in power. We sold him the chemicals and the weapons. Hussein the terrorist was armed and enabled by America to overthrow General Abdel Karim Qassem after he tried to natiolize the oil.
When Saddam tried to nationalize the oil we branded him a terrorist.
Whoever will spread terror for us in exchange for oil we will equip. That is the truth. Blood for oil.
I know god is truth. The truth is there and the lies are there. You choose. I can't do anything for you. I am not the judge.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/made-in-the-usa-part-iii-the-dishonor-roll/2889/
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AT&T
(New York City, New York)
2000 ?- Contracted with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to "optimize" Huawei's products. Between 2000 and 2001, Huawei outfitted Iraq's air-defense system with fiber-optic equipment, in violation of a U.N. trade embargo.
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AL HADDAD ENTERPRISES, INC.
(Formerly based in Nashville, Tennessee ?- defunct)
1984 to 1985 ?- Company sold 60 tons of DMMP, a material used to make sarin gas, to Iraq. Also provided chemical-production equipment to Iraq. In 1984, customs officials at Kennedy International Airport seized another Al Haddad shipment of 1,100 pounds of potassium fluoride, a chemical used in nerve-gas production. Al Haddad was not charged in this attempted transfer of chemicals, which were destined for Iraq's Ministry of Pesticides. This firm also received letters of credit from BNL (an Italian bank) totaling $134,988 to sell knives and rubber blankets to Technical Corp. for Special Projects, an Iraqi front company. (Note: See Banca Nazionale del Lavoro entry for information about BNL's Iraqi loans and letters of credit.)
AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION
(Manassas, Virginia)
1985 to 1989 ?- ATCC is a nonprofit that provides biological products, technical services and educational programs to private industry, government and academia. It sent to Iraq some 70 shipments of deadly germs, which included anthrax bacteria, E. coli bacteria, salmonella bacteria, bacillus megaterium (which causes meningitis), bacillus subtilus and bacillus cereus (which are strains of anthrax), brucella abortus (which causes influenza), brucella melitensis (a bacteria that attacks major organs), clostridum botulinum (a source of botulism), clostridium perfringens (which causes lung failure), clostridium tetani (which causes muscle rigidity), and Francisella tularensis (which causes tularemia).
According to William Blum, writing in the August 1998 issue of the Progressive, Sam Gejdenson, chairperson of a Congressional subcommittee investigating US exports to Iraq, disclosed that from 1985 until 1990 "the US government approved 771 licenses [only 39 were rejected] for the export to Iraq of $1.5 billion worth of biological agents and high-tech equipment with military application
"The US spent virtually an entire decade making sure that Saddam Hussein had almost whatever he wanted
US export control policy was directed by US foreign policy as formulated by the State Department, and it was US foreign policy to assist the regime of Saddam Hussein."
A 1994 US Senate report revealed that US companies were licenced by the commerce department to export a "witch's brew" of biological and chemical materials, including bacillus anthracis (which causes anthrax) and clostridium botulinum (the source of botulism). The American Type Culture Collection made 70 shipments of the anthrax bug and other pathogenic agents.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2002/506/27605