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When was Saddam murdered? Oh yeah, he wasn't! Please stop with your nonsense BS posts!
We sold Saddam weapons right up until he invaded Kuwait. We praised him when he used the weapons we sold him against Iran. He was our 'ally' at the time. Then we concocted a lie as an excuse to murder him. Be careful who your friends are.
Bush was out for Iraq from day 1, and he used 9/11 as a convenient excuse. Read his inaugural speech...even before 9/11 he was dropping hints about wanting to attack Iraq.
We sold Saddam weapons right up until he invaded Kuwait. We praised him when he used the weapons we sold him against Iran. He was our 'ally' at the time. Then we concocted a lie as an excuse to murder him. Be careful who your friends are.
=> Meanwhile, during the period from 1968-1991, where did the weapons and other military supplies for Ba'athist Iraq come from? The figures below, from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), cover only "conventional" arms and only the period from 1973-1990. But they convey the basic picture clearly enough.
Saddam's weapons came overwhelmingly from the Soviet Union & other Soviet Bloc countries (69% during this period), followed by France (13%) and China (12%) and a string of smaller suppliers. (For example, according to a 1984 SIPRI report, "During 1982-83, Iraq accounted for 40% of total French arms exports.") The figure for the US is 1%.
When it comes to Saddam Hussein's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs, the picture is a little more complex. It seems clear that France was far and away the biggest supplier for the nuclear weapons program. Supplies for Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons (which included dual-use materials also suitable for making agricultural fertilizer, pesticides, medicines, etc.) were bought from a variety of sources, which seem to have been primarily western European or Russian and primarily private rather than governmental. For one discussion of the role played by German firms, for example, in supplying Saddam Hussein's poison-gas and biological-weapons programs, see The leading role of Germany in arming Iraq
US General Wesley Clark (ret.) told Democracy Now (2007) that ten days after September 11, 2011 another general had told him that the Bush government was planning to invade: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.
What they have in common is that they were not members of banks within the BIS, and most of them have lots of oil.
Hussein had agreed with France President De Gaulle to switch from dollars to Euros in oil trading six months before Bush invaded.
1. Libya is Africa’s largest exporter of oil, 1.7 million tons a day.
2. Gaddafi has been preparing to launch a gold dinar for oil trade with all of Africa’s 200 million people and other countries interested.
Before the invasion of Iraq, Hussein was in agreement as was Iran.
French President Nickolas Sarkozy called this, “a threat for financial security of mankind”. Much of France’s wealth—more than any other colonial-imperialist power—comes from exploiting Africa.1
3. Central Bank of Libya is 100% owned by state (since 1956) and is thus outside of multinational corporation control (BIS-Banking International Settlement rules for private interests). The state can finance its own projects and do so without interest rates, which reduce the costs by half of private banks. Libya’s central bank (with three branches in the east including Benghazi) has 144 tons of gold in its vaults, which it could use to start the gold dinar.
4. Gaddafi-Central Bank used $33 billion, without interest rates, to build the Great Man-Made River of 4,000 kilometers with three parallel pipelines running oil, gas and water supplying 70% of the people (4.5 of its 6 million) with clean drinking and irrigation water.
I find the subject of Obama invading a nation which in no way threatened us relevant to plans to invade other nations which have not directly threatened us since not threatening us is no guarantee we won't attack.
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