re gulf war selling arms in article l rusnews w w mantis co uk mathew mathew mantis co uk writes jbrown batman bmd trw com writes mathew i agree this it seems is the crux of your whole position isn t it that the us shouldn t have supported hussein and sold him arms to fight iran i agree and i agree in ruthlessly hunting down those who did or do but we did sell arms to hussein and it s a done deal now he invades kuwait so do we just sit back and say well we sold him all those arms i suppose he just wants to use them now too bad for kuwait no unfortunately sitting back and letting things be is not the way to correct a former mistake destroying hussein s military potential as we did was the right move but i agree with your statement reagan and bush made a grave error in judgment to sell arms to hussein but it s still happening that s the entire point only last month john major hailed it as a great victory that he had personally secured a sale of arms to saudi arabia the same month we sold jet fighters to the same indonesian government that s busy killing the east timorese i heard about the arms sale to saudi arabia now how is it such a grave mistake to sell saudi arabia weapons or are you claiming that we shouldn t sell any weapons to other countries straightforward answer please it s all very well to say oops we made a boo boo better clean up the mistake but the us and uk keep making the same mistake they do it so often that i can t believe it s not deliberate this suspicion is reinforced by the fact that the mistake is an extremely profitable one for a decrepit economy reliant on arms sales who benefits from arms sales hint it isn t normally the gov t it is the contractor that builds that piece of equipment believe it or not the us and uk don t export the huge quantities of arms that you have just accused them of doing arms exports are rare enough that it requires an act of congress for non small arms to most countries if not all do you believe in telling everyone who can do what and who can sell their goods to whom mathew mccullou whipple cs wisc edu never program and drink beer at the same m time it doesn t work
