News Report: USA helped Iraq's Bio-Chem Weapons

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Report: U.S. Aided Iraq in War With Iran Despite Use of Chemical Weapons
Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas
(NY Times)


A covert American program during the Reagan administration provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence agencies knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war, according to senior military officers with direct knowledge of the program. Iraq's use of gas in that conflict is repeatedly cited by President Bush ....


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U.S. Chemical and Biological Exports to Iraq and Their Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War


Committee Staff Report No. 3: Chemical Warfare Agent Identification, Chemical Injuries, and Other Findings.
U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

James J Tuite, III, Principal Investigator......

On October 27, 1992, the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held hearings that revealed that the United States had exported chemical, biological, nuclear, and missile-system equipment to Iraq that was converted to military use in Iraq's chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons program. Many of these weapons -- weapons that the U.S. and other countries provided critical materials for -- were used against us during the war.

On June 30, 1993, several veterans testified at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. There, they related details of unexplained events that took place during the Persian Gulf War which they believed to be chemical warfare agent attacks. After these unexplained events, many of the veterans present reported symptoms consistent with exposure to a mixed agent attack. Then, on July 29, 1993, the Czech Minister of Defense announced that a Czechoslovak chemical decontamination unit had detected the chemical warfare agent Sarin in areas of northern Saudi Arabia during the early phases of the Gulf War. They had attributed the detections to fallout from coalition bombing of Iraqi chemical warfare agent production facilities, but......

Keep on Trekin

That's very bad, but I suppose Regan was an Actor maybe he thought the whole Presidency thing was just some TV drama.

and he did suffer from Alzeheimers while he was President.

BJJ

Here are a few links on the Biological Chem USA/IRaq Subject

BJJ

Here a few Links

http://www.msnbc.com/news/788858.asp?pne=msn&cp1=1

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=68&ncid=68&e=3&u=/nyt/20020817/ts_nyt/officers_say_u_s__aided_iraq_in_war_despite_use_of_gas

http://www.chronicillnet.org/PGWS/tuite/chembio.html

http://www.msnbc.com/news/795649.asp?0bl=-0

BJJ

‘IT DIDN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE’
While senior officials of the Reagan administration publicly condemned Iraq’s use of mustard gas, sarin, VX and other chemical weapons, Reagan, Vice President George Bush — father of the current president — and senior national security aides never withdrew their support for the covert program, the Times quoted military officers as saying.
The Pentagon “wasn’t so horrified by Iraq’s use of gas,” a veteran of the program told the newspaper. “It was just another way of killing people — whether with a bullet or phosgene, it didn’t make any difference.”
Retired Col. Walter P. Lang, the senior defense intelligence officer at the time, told the Times that he would not discuss classified information, but he added that officials of both the DIA and the CIA “it did not matter how many suffered or died in this war, were desperate to make sure that Iraq did not lose”

Kim Tae-Woo

good stuff

Typedef

It is not commonly known that yes the USA did support Saddam in the past nor is it touted often enough that the Iraqi regieme has in fact used chemical weapons 'nerve gas' against Kurdish civilian populations of Northern Iraq.

http://www.phrusa.org/research/chemical_weapons/chemiraqgas2.html

Needless to say whatever about the use of weapons supplied by the US against the US, the weapons used against the Kurds in Northern Iraq could not have been developed by Iraq if the west (Collectively) had not been assisting Iraq.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/cw/program.htm

Iraq started research into the production of chemical weapons agents in the 1970s and started batch production of agents in the early 1980s. At that stage, production was heavily reliant on the import of precursor chemicals from foreign suppliers.

In 1982, early in the Iran-Iraq War, the Iraqis used riot control agents to repel Iranian attacks. They progressed to the use of CW agents in mid-1983 with mustard, and in March 1984 with tabun (the first use ever of a nerve agent in war). The Iraqis continued to use chemical weapons until the end of hostilities in August 1988; in addition they introduced the nerve agents sarin and GF late in the war.

Mustard gas : http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/mustard/mustard.htm

Keeks

Originally posted by Typedef
It is not commonly known that yes the USA did support Saddam in the past

That seems to be a common trend with the US, helping ppl to become no one on there most wanted list.

Americans think that just because they help someone win a fight they will suddenly become "best friends", and will start some sort of alliance.

I think they really should stop interferring in other ppls business. They have caused nothing but trouble with there righteous "Crusade" to rid the world of "Evil Men".

Just look at the suffering they have caused during the cold war, when they backed such mitiarry campagins against communimsm. Vietnam, Koera, Afganastan. The diaster at the bay of Pigs. The above Iraqi- Iran conflit (backing the iraqis becasue of the US-Iran hostage thingy). The list goes on and on.

Blitzkrieger

I know I'm replying two weeks late but that's not exactly news. Everybody helped Iraq with bio-chem weapons. Britan, France, Germany, Spain, Japan.........

BJJ

The USa put the evil dictator Saddam into power and then supported the other evil Empire ( the Axis of Evil Iran) to form yet another enemy

Blitzkrieger

Is there such a thing as watching too much X-Files?

(not disputing you have a vaild point but your attitude seems ridiculous when you consider the average american)

Loomer

Originally posted by Typedef
It is not commonly known that yes the USA did support Saddam in the past nor is it touted often enough that the Iraqi regieme has in fact used chemical weapons 'nerve gas' against Kurdish civilian populations of Northern Iraq.

Amongst other things, but I must add, only if your a moron who treats SKY news et al as Gospel.

BJJ

Forgot about this one