re gulf war was re death penalty was re political atheists mark mccullough mccullou snake cs wisc edu wrote details of us built chemical plant at al alteer near baghdad however the plant s intended use was to aid the iraqi infrastructure it is not an example of selling a weapon may sound nitpicking but are we going to refuse to sell valuable parts that build the infrastructure because of dual use technology i am contending that in this case and in the case of the sale of pesticides by uk companies that they knew full well that it was to be used for the production of chemical weapons even if that was not its officially stated purpose i personally don t think that letting iran conquer iraq would have been a good thing for that matter neither do i for the reasons you state it is the hypocrisy and claims the us did not help iraq that make me angry plus the fact that the usa seems to believe it has the right to interfere where is sees fit i e has an interest rather than a duty to intervene where it is required this is demonstrated by the failure of the us to do anything about east timor and the region is becoming destabilised the usa might have done something approaching the right thing given my reservations about the uncessary number of civillian casualites but for wholly the wrong reasons and after having a hand in creating the situation that in no way would affect the us later military action against iraq i did not suggest it would and it would be ridiculous to assert otherwise i was simply indicating the usa has previously aided iraq intel on manufacturing techniques or something of that nature no apparently data orginally from satellites although i doubt that iraq would have been given the raw data concerning troop concentrations aaron turner aaron minster york ac uk
