Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by ricardo.
Listen up

we have several dead soldiers from my area.
Claim Bush, he send them to kill and be killed.
Wa was not necessary, it is obvious.
Why start the war just when the UN inspectors was giving some results?
Did you really think that war cant wait 3 weeks?
Rumsfeld travel to Iraq once and give a hugh to Hussein and give him support and weapons (its on US newspapers!)... in that time Saddam was a killer and iraquies where not 'free' and nobody cares.
Saddam was there 24 years... why is the hurry NOW?
The old Bush said in 1990 (more or less) that was the US BEST INTEREST to give money to Saddam Hussein (read US newpapers!).
There is no sense in suddenly be in a hurry to attack Saddam when some time ago nobody was concerned about iraquies.
All those Saddam crimes that hurt you happens when Saddam was a US allie, if you dont believe me read the us old newspapers, the true is there. Read newspapers from 1980 to 1991 you will see that Saddam was an allied of Reagan/Bush, etc.
Don't believe me, don't believe in dissents, believe in the old US newspapers...
Even CIA old papers show the true, read it.
One example:
"It is fair to conclude Bush has not always hated Saddam. Or if he has hated Saddam all these years, he put that hatred aside in the name of statecraft. Reagan, Bush, the Iraqi dictator, and American corporations have worked together over the years. War and death make for good business. It also makes for lies and deception -- and possibly for less than truthful interviews. "
"According to Teicher, he and Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Iraq to make sure the Iraqi dictator received what he needed in order to win the Iran-Iraq war "
http://www.svsu.edu/~boles/111/articles ... ngIraq.htm
From an US university.
In 1982, Reagan "legalized" direct military assistance to Iraq. This resulted in more than a billion dollars in military related exports.
Its easy to find if its true or not.
Even a New York Times pulitzer price said that US gives ANTHRAX to Saddam, check it.
In 1985, the US Centers of Disease Control sent samples of an Israeli strain of West Nile virus to a microbiologist at the Basra University in Iraq. In addition, Iraq received other "various toxins and bacteria," including botulins and E. coli.
Corporations that have sold dual-use chemicals and biological samples to Iraq for its weapons program include: Phillips Petroleum, Unilever, Alcolac, Allied Signal, the American Type Culture Collection, and Teledyne.
The Baltimore company Alcolac was convicted of illegally selling thiodiglycol -- a chemical precursor used in the production of mustard gas -- for use in Iraq's chemical warfare program.
According to another New York Times article (8-29-02) Col. Walter P. Lang, a senior defense intelligence officer at the time, explained that D.I.A. and C.I.A. officials "were desperate to make sure that Iraq did not lose" to Iran. "The use of gas on the battlefield by the Iraqis was not a matter of deep strategic concern," he said. One veteran said, that the Pentagon "wasn't so horrified by Iraq's use of gas." "It was just another way of killing people _ whether with a bullet or phosgene, it didn't make any difference."
The question is not whether Saddam is willing to use chemical or other weapons of mass destruction again. The question is whether the US is willing to sell materials for weapons of mass destruction to dictators and is willing to help them use them.
The following is detailed but only partial listing of biological materials [and excludes all chemical materials], provided by the American Type Culture Collection, which were exported to agencies of the government of Iraq pursuant to the issuance of an export licensed by the U.S. Commerce Department:
Date: February 8, 1985
Sent to: Iraq Atomic Energy Agency
Materials Shipped:
Ustilago nuda (Jensen) Rostrup
Date: February 22, 1985 Sent to: Ministry of Higher Education
Materials Shipped:
Histoplasma capsulatum var. farciminosum (ATCC 32136)
Class III pathogen
Date: July 11, 1985 Sent to: Middle and Near East Regional A
Materials Shipped:
Histoplasma capsulatum var. farciminosum (ATCC 32136)
Class III pathogen
Date: May 2, 1986 Sent to: Ministry of Higher Education
Materials Shipped:
Bacillus Anthracis Cohn (ATCC 10)
Batch ) 08-20-82 (2 each)
Class III pathogen.
Bacillus Subtilis (Ehrenberg) Cohn (ATCC 82)
Batch ) 06-20-84 (2 each)
Clostridium botulinum Type A (ATCC 3502)
Batch) 07-07-81 (3 each)
Class III Pathogen
Clostridium perfringens (Weillon and Zuber) Hauduroy, et al
(ATCC 3624) Batch) 10-85SV (2 each)
Bacillus subtilis (ATCC 6051) Batch) 12-06-84 (2 each)
Francisella tularensis var. tularensis Olsufiev (ATCC 6223)
Batch) 05-14-79 (2 each) Avirulent, suitable for preparations of diagnostic antigens.
Clostridium tetani (ATCC 9441)
Batch) 03-84 (3 each) Highly toxigenic.
Clostridium botulinum Type E (ATCC 9564) Batch) 03-02-79 (2 each)
Class III pathogen
Clostridium tetani (ATCC 10779) Batch) 04-24-84S (3 each)
Clostridium perfringens (ATCC 12916) Batch) 08-14-80 (2 each) Agglutinating type 2.
Clostridium perfringens (ATCC 13124)
Batch) 07-84SV (3 each)
Type A, alpha-toxigenic, produces lecithinase C.J. Appl.
Bacillus Anthracis (ATCC 14185)
Batch) 01-14-80 (3 each)
G.G. Wright (Fort Detrick) V770-NP1-R. Bovine anthrax,
Class III pathogen
Bacillus Anthracis (ATCC 14578)
Batch) 01-06-78 (2 each)
Class III pathogen.
Bacillus megaterium (ATCC 14581)
Batch) 04-18-85 (2 each)
Bacillus megaterium (ATCC 14945)
Batch) 06-21-81 (2 each)
Clostridium botulinum Type E (ATCC 17855)
Batch) 06-21-71
Class III pathogen.
Bacillus megaterium (ATCC 19213)
Batch) 3-84 (2 each)
Clostridium botulinum Type A (ATCC 19397)
Batch) 08-18-81 (2 each)
Class III pathogen
Brucella abortus Biotype 3 (ATCC 23450)
Batch) 08-02-84 (3 each)
Class III pathogen
Brucella abortus Biotype 9 (ATCC 23455)
Batch) 02-05-68 (3 each)
Class III pathogen
Brucella melitensis Biotype 1 (ATCC 23456)
Batch) 03-08-78 (2 each)
Class III pathogen
Brucella melitensis Biotype 3 (ATCC 23458)
Batch) 01-29-68 (2 each)
Class III pathogen
Clostridium botulinum Type A (ATCC 25763)
Batch) 8-83 (2 each)
Class III pathogen
Clostridium botulinum Type F (ATCC 35415)
Batch) 02-02-84 (2 each)
Class III pathogen
Date: August 31, 1987 Sent to: State Company for Drug Industries
Materials Shipped:
Saccharomyces cerevesiae (ATCC 2601)
Batch) 08-28-08 (1 each)
Salmonella choleraesuis subsp. choleraesuis Serotype typhi
(ATCC 6539) Batch) 06-86S (1 each)
Bacillus subtillus (ATCC 6633)
Batch) 10-85 (2 each)
Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae (ATCC 10031)
Batch) 08-13-80 (1 each)
Escherichia coli (ATCC 10536)
Batch) 04-09-80 (1 each)
Bacillus cereus (11778)
Batch) 05-85SV (2 each)
Staphylococcus epidermidis (ATCC 12228)
Batch) 11-86s (1 each)
Bacillus pumilus (ATCC 14884)
Batch) 09-08-80 (2 each)
Date: July 11, 1988 Sent to: Iraq Atomic Energy Commission
Materials Shipped:
Escherichia coli (ATCC 11303)
Batch) 04-87S
Phage host
Cauliflower Mosaic Caulimovirus (ATCC45031)
Batch) 06-14-85
Plant virus
Plasmid in Agrobacterium Tumefaciens (ATCC37349)
(Ti plasmid for co-cultivation with plant integration vectors in E. Coli) Batch) 05-28-85
Date: April 26, 1988 Sent to: Iraq Atomic Energy Commission
Materials Shipped:
Hulambda4x-8, clone: human hypoxanthine
phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) Chromosome(s) X q26.1 (ATCC 57236) Phage vector; Suggested host: E.coli
Hulambda14-8, clone: human hypoxanthine
phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) Chromosome(s): X q26.1 (ATCC 57240) Phage vector; Suggested host: E.coli
Hulambda15, clone: human hypoxanthine
phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) Chromosome(s) X q26.1 (ATCC 57242) Phage vector; Suggested host: E.coli
Date: August 31, 1987 Sent to: Iraq Atomic Energy Commission
Materials Shipped:
Escherichia coli (ATCC 23846)
Batch) 07-29-83 (1 each)
Escherichia coli (ATCC 33694)
Batch) 05-87 (1 each)
Date: September 29, 1988 Sent to: Ministry of Trade
Materials Shipped:
Bacillus anthracis (ATCC 240)
Batch)05-14-63 (3 each)
Class III pathogen
Bacillus anthracis (ATCC 938)
Batch)1963 (3 each)
Class III pathogen
Clostridium perfringens (ATCC 3629)
Batch)10-23-85 (3 each)
Clostridium perfringens (ATCC 8009)
Batch)03-30-84 (3 each)
Bacillus anthracis (ATCC 8705)
Batch) 06-27-62 (3 each)
Class III pathogen
Brucella abortus (ATCC 9014)
Batch) 05-11-66 (3 each)
Class III pathogen
Clostridium perfringens (ATCC 10388)
Batch) 06-01-73 (3 each)
Bacillus anthracis (ATCC 11966)
Batch) 05-05-70 (3 each)
Class III pathogen
Clostridium botulinum Type A
Batch) 07-86 (3 each)
Class III pathogen
Bacillus cereus (ATCC 33018)
Batch) 04-83 (3 each)
Bacillus ceres (ATCC 33019)
Batch) 03-88 (3 each)
Date: Janaury 31, 1989 Sent to: Iraq Atomic Energy Commission
Materials Shipped:
PHPT31, clone: human hypoxanthine
phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) Chromosome(s) X q26.1 (ATCC 57057)
plambda500, clone: human hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase pseudogene (HPRT) Chromosome(s): 5 p14-p13 (ATCC 57212)
Date: January 17, 1989 Sent to: Iraq Atomic Energy Commission
Materials Shipped:
Hulambda4x-8, clone: human hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) Chromosome(s) X q26.1 (ATCC 57237) Phage vector; Suggested host: E.coli
Hulambda14, clone: human hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) Chromosome(s): X q26.1 (ATCC 57240) Cloned from human lymphoblast Phage vector; Suggested host: E.coli
Hulambda15, clone: human hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) Chromosome(s) X q26.1 (ATCC 57241) Phage vector; Suggested host: E.coli.
Best Regards
Ricardo
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