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Scruffy wrote:
HEARTLESS wrote: Leftist Jerk, how did Chemical Ali kill all the Kurds, with kindness you twit?
With the weapons he bought from Reagan.
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Residenttroll wrote:
Scruffy wrote:
HEARTLESS wrote: Leftist Jerk, how did Chemical Ali kill all the Kurds, with kindness you twit?
With the weapons he bought from Reagan.
....and, of course, no facts to back up your claims.
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neptunechimney wrote:
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Scruffy wrote:
HEARTLESS wrote: Leftist Jerk, how did Chemical Ali kill all the Kurds, with kindness you twit?
With the weapons he bought from Reagan.
....and, of course, no facts to back up your claims.
Actually it is a historical fact. Politics makes strange bed fellows. Saddam and Iraq used to be our friends when we were mad at Iran for kicking the Shaw of Iran and taking our embassy hostage.
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HEARTLESS wrote: Leftist Jerk, how did Chemical Ali kill all the Kurds, with kindness you twit?
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Martin Ent Inc wrote:
neptunechimney wrote:
Residenttroll wrote:
Scruffy wrote:
HEARTLESS wrote: Leftist Jerk, how did Chemical Ali kill all the Kurds, with kindness you twit?
With the weapons he bought from Reagan.
....and, of course, no facts to back up your claims.
Actually it is a historical fact. Politics makes strange bed fellows. Saddam and Iraq used to be our friends when we were mad at Iran for kicking the Shaw of Iran and taking our embassy hostage.
True.
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The know-how and material for developing chemical weapons were obtained by Saddam's regime from foreign firms.[22] The largest suppliers of precursors for chemical weapons production were in Singapore (4,515 tons), the Netherlands (4,261 tons), Egypt (2,400 tons), India (2,343 tons), and West Germany (1,027 tons). One Indian company, Exomet Plastics (now part of EPC Industrie Ltd.) sent 2,292 tons of precursor chemicals to Iraq. The Kim Al-Khaleej firm, located in Singapore and affiliated to United Arab Emirates, supplied more than 4,500 tons of VX, sarin, and mustard gas precursors and production equipment to Iraq.[23]
The provision of chemical precursors from United States companies to Iraq was enabled by a Ronald Reagan administration policy that removed Iraq from the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Leaked portions of Iraq's "Full, Final and Complete" disclosure of the sources for its weapons programs shows that thiodiglycol, a substance needed to manufacture mustard gas, was among the chemical precursors provided to Iraq from US companies such as Alcolac International and Phillips. Both companies have since undergone reorganization and Phillips, once a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum is now part of ConocoPhillips, an American oil and discount fossil fuel company, while Alcolac International has since dissolved and reformed as Alcolac Inc.[24] Alcolac was named as a defendant in the Aziz v. Iraq case presently pending in the United States District Court (Case No. 1:09-cv-00869-MJG).[citation needed]
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towermonkey wrote:
The know-how and material for developing chemical weapons were obtained by Saddam's regime from foreign firms.[22] The largest suppliers of precursors for chemical weapons production were in Singapore (4,515 tons), the Netherlands (4,261 tons), Egypt (2,400 tons), India (2,343 tons), and West Germany (1,027 tons). One Indian company, Exomet Plastics (now part of EPC Industrie Ltd.) sent 2,292 tons of precursor chemicals to Iraq. The Kim Al-Khaleej firm, located in Singapore and affiliated to United Arab Emirates, supplied more than 4,500 tons of VX, sarin, and mustard gas precursors and production equipment to Iraq.[23]
The provision of chemical precursors from United States companies to Iraq was enabled by a Ronald Reagan administration policy that removed Iraq from the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Leaked portions of Iraq's "Full, Final and Complete" disclosure of the sources for its weapons programs shows that thiodiglycol, a substance needed to manufacture mustard gas, was among the chemical precursors provided to Iraq from US companies such as Alcolac International and Phillips. Both companies have since undergone reorganization and Phillips, once a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum is now part of ConocoPhillips, an American oil and discount fossil fuel company, while Alcolac International has since dissolved and reformed as Alcolac Inc.[24] Alcolac was named as a defendant in the Aziz v. Iraq case presently pending in the United States District Court (Case No. 1:09-cv-00869-MJG).[citation needed]
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