On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:52:52 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

Which, oddly enough, seems to have been quoted without attribution from
that same Mark Phythian guy who keeps selling books based on the idea
that the US and Britain armed Iraq (while ignoring everyone else, who
*really* sold them the weapons, and are still trying to collect on the
bills).

Pythian's book quotes those same sources, IIRC. And the book never
denies that the bulk of Saddam's weapons came from other countries: he
was addressing the widespread, comfortable belief in Britain and the
USA that neither of those countries had anything to do with it.

Scott