----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
> >THE US and Britain sold Saddam Hussein the technology and materials
> >Iraq needed to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of
> >mass destruction.
>
> I don't get this argument. If the U.S. and UK sold weapons to Iraq,
> and if Iraq really is a danger to the world (not a position I'm
> taking except for the purposes of this argument), then the U.S. and
> UK bear special responsibility for reversing the error. The same goes
> with the creation of the Taliban and al Qaeda as an unintended
> consequence of the fight against the USSR.
>
> Doug
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The US also sold Saudi Arabia $66billion+ in weapons over the past decade or so and surely some of that gear and know-how ended up in the hands of ObL's friends; so what's "our" responsibility in reversing that error?
Ian