--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 4/14/06 5:34:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > In a message dated 4/14/06 1:58:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > > jflanegi@ writes: > > > > > > Then after the Iranian revolution, we cozied up to Saddam and > gave > > > him whatever he wanted militarily, including poison gas, to use > > > against Iran. > > > > > > > > > > > > Please, go into detail on this. I like the whatever he wanted > > militarily, > > > including poison gas part best. > > > > > > > Yes, I'd like to hear that one too! > > > > I've excerpted the info below from a George Washigton University > website. The source material comes from declassified NSA documents. > > Although there is no direct evidence of the USA providing Iraq with > chemical agents to use against Iran, we appear to be pretty friendly > about it, or at best, talking out of both sides of our mouth. > > =================================================== > > From: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/ > > Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: > The U.S. Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984 > > National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 82 > > Edited by Joyce Battle > > February 25, 2003 > > 9/22/80 Iraq invades Iran. > > 1983-The White House and State Department pressured the Export- > Import Bank to provide Iraq with financing, to enhance its credit > standing and enable it to obtain loans from other international > financial institutions. > > 12/83 Rumsfeld as US special envoy visits Saddam in Baghdad. > > The U.S. restored formal relations with Iraq in November 1984, but > the U.S. had begun, several years earlier, to provide it with > intelligence and military support (in secret and contrary to this > country's official neutrality) in accordance with policy directives > from President Ronald Reagan. These were prepared pursuant to his > March 1982 National Security Study Memorandum (NSSM 4-82) asking for > a review of U.S. policy toward the Middle East. > > Although official U.S. policy still barred the export of U.S. > military equipment to Iraq, some was evidently provided on a "don't > ask - don't tell" basis. In April 1984, the Baghdad interests > section asked to be kept apprised of Bell Helicopter Textron's > negotiations to sell helicopters to Iraq, which were not to be "in > any way configured for military use". The purchaser was the Iraqi > Ministry of Defense. In December 1982, Bell Textron's Italian > subsidiary had informed the U.S. embassy in Rome that it turned down > a request from Iraq to militarize recently purchased Hughes > helicopters. An allied government, South Korea, informed the State > Department that it had received a similar request in June 1983 (when > a congressional aide asked in March 1983 whether heavy trucks > recently sold to Iraq were intended for military purposes, a State > Department official replied "we presumed that this was Iraq's > intention, and had not asked.") > > Iran had submitted a draft resolution asking the U.N. to condemn > Iraq's chemical weapons use. The U.S. delegate to the U.N. was > instructed to lobby friendly delegations in order to obtain a > general motion of "no decision" on the resolution. If this was not > achievable, the U.S. delegate was to abstain on the issue. Iraq's > ambassador met with the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Jeane > Kirkpatrick, and asked for "restraint" in responding to the issue - > as did the representatives of both France and Britain. > > 1988- Ceasefire signed between Iraq and Iran. > > > > > > I see nothing about the sale of military equipment, especially "whatever > Saddam wanted", maybe some trucks and some helicopters that were not fitted with > military equipment. I don't see anything about the sale of poison gases > here, just a very vague innuendo at best. What we do know was given to Saddam was > military intelligence about Iranian troop movements that maintained the > status quo and kept one side form defeating the other. Those Iranians and Iraqis > sure had to pump and sell a lot of oil to keep their little war going which > kept OPEC prices down. >
Ok. I see your initial question and this response as basically a nit- pick regarding my original post. No big deal- we'll see what happens soon enough... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
