Re: Occupied Palestine…
Did you see those graphs? The USSR gave every weapon imaginable to Iraq, they lacked for nothing. Russia had reliable cluster munitions, and they had already sold $55bln in weapons to Iraq. The US later sold dual use technologies such as computerized routers, and laser cutter which could have been used in Iraq’s nuclear program, but the vast majority of export controls by the US worked quite well.
If you look at the table of suppliers for the chemical components, you will see no lack of ready suppliers. The simple answer is that Iraq was a Soviet proxy state, and a vast weapons storehouse was available though the USSR, Eastern Europe proxy states and other uncontrolled means.
But, just for your consideration, and to completely blow up your “it’s a well known fact” theory, let’s look at how Saddam was financed. Surely if the US was hip deep with Saddam, we would have been loaning him money right?
Wrong.
The following table shows that Iraq owed a total debt of between $120bn and $135bn. The total amount loaned Iraq by the US was $2.2bn, in US Agricultural Grain credits. Wow.
http://www.jubileeiraq.org/debt_today.htm
You know, at one point it was pointed out here that Saddam’s men tortured their political opponents by taking a common construction drill and bit, supplied through a UK company and repeatedly drilled holes through a mans hand during interrogation.
Some Bozo here was actually arrogant enough to suggest that the UK should stop exporting drills to Iraq, knowing what they might be used for…
My point to all this? Guppies here think they “know” all about who to blame for things in the world. If they can possibly find a link to US culpability they gleefully dance around and point fingers. The same with Israel. We have become the universal excuse for failure in the Muslim world.
And frankly, what no one will admit? That the Palestinians, and their leadership have lost. They really screwed up. They cannot win at major wars, they cannot win at diplomacy, they cannot win at insurgency. They are refugees in their own country.
And doctor, I will kindly spare you the juvenile attitude when you do us all the favor of a bit of unbiased research before spouting opinions on topics you know little about. Surely they taught you that at a leading institution?