Re: "smoked salmon socialists"

duh! wrote:
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> U.S. companies helped illegally suppy Iraq's weapons to begin with . . .

Take a look at Die Tageszeitung's story. Those 24 US companies weren't 
alone. There were also 80 German companies in the same dossier:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2584975.stm

Why didn't that leftwing German rag *name* their own domestic companies, 
*ALL* 80 OF THEM, especially those who are also accused of violating the 
embargo through at least 2001?

Why didn't you also note that companies from the UK, France, China, 
Russia, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden are also 
listed in the dossier?

> "A German newspaper has obtained portions of Iraq's top secret weapons
> report that reveals at least 24 U.S. corporations as well as four agencies
> of the U.S. government illegally helped Iraq build its biological, chemical
> and nuclear weapons programs.

Up until what year? Why didn't Zumach ever point out that some German 
and French companies were violating the embargo through AT LEAST 2001?

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> The Berlin-based paper Die Tageszeitung also reports the U.S. Department of
> Energy delivered essential non-fissile parts for Baghdad's nuclear weapons
> program in the 1980s. The Departments of Agriculture, Commerce and Defense
> also provided assistance.

Note: *non*-fissile; please explain what's meant by "essential" in that 
context. We've received scientists from a variety of nations -- friend 
and foe -- at Los Alamos, Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and other 
facilities; to call our hosting of Iraqi scientists "assistance" is 
quite amusing. Just ask the Chinese what lengths they've had to go to 
get useful information from such visits.

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> According to the paper, only one country had more business ties to Iraq than
> the U.S. That was Germany. As many as 80 German companies are also listed in
> Iraq's report. And the paper reported that some German companies continued
> to do business with Iraq until last year.

There is information that they, as well as some French, Sino, and Syrian 
concerns, may have been doing business with Saddam up until the day we 
moved in. No fucking wonder those nations opposed the war so vehemently.

http://tinyurl.com/xk3f
http://tinyurl.com/xk3i

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