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We were led to believe that Iraq possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. Well, where are they? How did they get the weapons that they had when they were fighting Iraq? Donald Rumsfeld may know the answer, he helped Iraq get them!

• How America armed Iraq - UNDER the successive presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the USA sold nuclear, chemical and biological weapons technology to Saddam Hussein. - In the early 1990s, UN inspectors told the US Senate committee on banking, housing and urban affairs – which oversees American export policy – that they had “identified many US-manufactured items exported pursuant of licences issued by the US department of commerce that were used to further Iraq’s chemical and nuclear weapons development and missile delivery system development programmes”.
• Ronnie & Saddam - It was just before Christmas 1983 that Donald Rumsfeld, then US presidential envoy to Iraq, slipped quietly into Baghdad to come face to face with the man who would become one of America’s greatest enemies within two decades. - The trip by the current US defence secretary, to pledge US support for Saddam Hussein, marked one of the lowest points of the entire Reagan presidency, and symbolically represents the real legacy of the “Great Communicator”. For Reagan was a president who allowed the US to secretly arm the Iraqi dictator with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), supported Iraq’s military expansion, turned a blind eye to Saddam using chemical weapons against Iran and thereby set in train the events that would lead to George W Bush’s disastrous decision to invade the country in 2002.
• US begins building treaty-breaching germ war defense centre - To do so, the centre will have to produce and stockpile the world's most lethal bacteria and viruses, which is forbidden by the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.

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• Bioweapon labs will bring threat of lethal viruses to urban America - A network of high-security laboratories for storing and investigating some of the most lethal viruses known to mankind is being built across the US, leaving communities in uproar. They not only fear the risk of the viruses escaping, but also contend that the programme, part of the $6bn Project BioShield, is a stunning case of overkill. For none of the germs to be studied is related to bioweaponry.
• Iraqi Trailers Said to Make Hydrogen, Not Biological Arms - Engineering experts from the Defense Intelligence Agency have come to believe that the most likely use for two mysterious trailers found in Iraq was to produce hydrogen for weather balloons rather than to make biological weapons, government officials say.
• Experts Doubt U.S. Claim on Iraqi Drones - Huddled over a fleet of abandoned Iraqi drones, U.S. weapons experts in Baghdad came to one conclusion: Despite the Bush administration's public assertions, these unmanned aerial vehicles weren't designed to dispense biological or chemical weapons.
• U.S. weapons hunters find no evidence Iraq had smallpox - Top American scientists assigned to the weapons hunt in Iraq found no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime was making or stockpiling smallpox, The Associated Press has learned from senior military officers involved in the search. - But a three-month search by "Team Pox" turned up only signs to the contrary: disabled equipment that had been rendered harmless by U.N. inspectors, Iraqi scientists deemed credible who gave no indication they had worked with smallpox and a laboratory thought to be back in use that was covered in cobwebs.
• Rumsfeld Visited Baghdad in 1984 to Reassure Iraqis, Documents Show - Trip Followed Criticism Of Chemical Arms' Use - Donald H. Rumsfeld went to Baghdad in March 1984 with instructions to deliver a private message about weapons of mass destruction: that the United States' public criticism of Iraq for using chemical weapons would not derail Washington's attempts to forge a better relationship, according to newly declassified documents.
• Rumsfeld backed Saddam even after chemical attacks - During the war with Iran, America provided combat assistance to Iraq that included intelligence on Iranian deployments and bomb-damage assessments. In 1987-88 American warships destroyed Iranian oil platforms in the Gulf and broke the blockade of Iraqi shipping lanes. - TVNL Comment: Didn’t we know this already? Remember all the non-patriots who brought this up PRIOR to the invasion?
• Iraq's WMD Plans Were Preliminary - Iraq hid from United Nations inspectors some preliminary plans to develop banned weapons, but a U.S. survey team has found no evidence of weapons stockpiles or active weapons-building programs, a newspaper reports. - But Iraq's nuclear weapons program appears never to have recovered from the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Biological weapons apparently were also destroyed in 1991. And evidence suggests Iraq was not developing anthrax, smallpox or VX nerve gas.
• Danish army: Iraqi shells WMD-free - Mortar shells found in Iraq and believed to be suspicious in fact contained no chemical agents, the Danish army said after a week of tests.
• Iraq Illicit Arms Gone Before War, Departing Inspector States - Asked directly if he was saying that Iraq did not have any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the country, Dr. Kay replied, according to a transcript of the taped interview made public by Reuters, "That is correct."
• Germans accuse US over Iraq weapons claim - German officials said that they had warned American colleagues well before the Iraq war that Curveball's information was not credible - but the warning was ignored. - It was the Iraqi defector's testimony that led the Bush administration to claim that Saddam had built a fleet of trucks and railway wagons to produce anthrax and other deadly germs.
• Iran Court Orders U.S. to Pay $600 Million - An Iranian court has ruled the United States should pay $600 million in compensation for supplying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons, the official IRNA news agency said on Wednesday. - "The court has ordered the American government to pay the money for furnishing Saddam with chemical weapons to attack Iran," IRNA reported.
• Iranian gas attack victims to sue US - Iranian victims of chemical attacks say they will take the United States to the International Court of Justice in The Hague for supplying Iraq with the weapons that scarred them, the official IRNA news agency said. - "The US government issued over 780 licences allowing American companies to export sensitive weapon components," the group said in a letter delivered to the Swiss Embassy, which covers US interests in Tehran.
• Saddam's germ war plot is traced back to one Oxford cow - An ear from the cow was sent to an English laboratory, where scientists discovered anthrax spores that were later used in secret biological warfare tests by Winston Churchill. - The culture was sent to the United States, which exported samples to Iraq during Saddam’s war against Iran in the 1980s. Inspectors have found that this batch of anthrax was the dictator’s choice in his attempts to create biological weapons.

 
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