"Chad Irby" wrote

A quote from that piece: "America did not put Saddam in power."

Please read the whole article !

"But during the cold war, America competed with the Soviets for Saddam's
attention and welcomed his war with the religious fanatics of Iran. Having
cozied up to Saddam, Washington found it hard to break away-even after going
to war with him in 1991." etc., etc., etc.,

Another Soviet boy, who only started paying attention to the US after
the USSR went broke.

First US caled Musharaf a dictaor which he is. After he give America support
in war in Afganistan he became "democrat" over night.
A democrat, Yeah right...

Are you seeing the pattern yet?

Yes, I see. US has its fingers in creating/supporting (along with soviets)
majority of world's terrorists and dictators.

And these are just few of them.

You also need to understand that giving someone support versus Communism
does not make them a "puppet," which implies that we controlled them
completely. Mostly, our efforts around the world ended up as an
advisory deal, versus the Soviet model of "do as we say."

Please, CIA and State Department was creating politics in those countries
and these guy were their actors.

CIA had their fingers in most of the Latin America countries.

I'm sorry, but you're out of your mind. Or have you never read any
history over the last five decades or so? Stalin killed more of his
*own* people than were killed in all of the wars from 1900 to 2004.

He was mostly killing their own people, US was killing others or have their
plyers to kill in their name.
US bombings of Cambodia killed near 500,000 civilians, US bombings of Laos
killed 350,000 civilans
Do You know just, how many civilans did US kill in Vietnam ?

Except that the people who sold that gear to them were the Soviets, the
French, and the Germans. And the French even sold them a nuclear
reactor to make bombs with.

The US never sold the Iraqis chemical *or* biological weapons, nor the
gear to use it.

You are ignorant!
Along with those country US has it's part in creating Iraq's WMD program.

"The U.S. companies listed, some of which have facilities in Silicon Valley,
include Spectra Physics, Honeywell, Dupont, Eastman Kodak, Bechtel,
Tektronix, Unisys, Rockwell and Hewlett-Packard. They allegedly provided
materials for Iraq's rocket program, planned nuclear weapons program and
conventional weapons program, which includes military logistics as well as
supplies and materials for building weapons plants.
The complete list included 24 companies with home bases in the United
States, along with 50 subsidiaries of foreign companies that conducted their
arms business with Iraq from within U.S. borders.
In addition to these companies, another group designated in the report as
Iraq's arms suppliers includes the U.S. Ministries of Defense, Energy, Trade
and Agriculture, as well as Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia
National laboratories."

"According to newly declassified documents mentioned in the Washington Post
Weekly Edition (Jan. 6-12, 2003), Iraq was already using chemical weapons on
an "almost daily basis" when Donald Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein in
1983, consolidating the U.S.-Iraq military alliance.
Subsequently, the Pentagon supplied logistical and military support; U.S.
banks provided billions of dollars in credits; and the CIA, using a Chilean
conduit, increased Saddam's supply of cluster bombs. U.S. companies also
supplied steel tubes and chemical substances, the types of material for
which the Security Council is now searching.
As late as 1989 and 1990, according to a report from U.S. Representative
Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), U.S. companies, under permits from the first Bush
administration, sent mustard gas materials, live cultures for
bacteriological research, to Iraq. U.S. companies helped Iraq build a
chemical weapons factory, and then shipped Hussein a West Nile virus,
hydrogen cyanide precursors and parts for a new nuclear plant."

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/me...iraq-0308.html