How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them

[Jeffrey David Hyslop]

>
> R wrote:
>
> >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
>

As Zizek argued.  Fair enough - it's not a stand-alone argument against
bombing Iraq.  But it points out that the US might not be the most responsible
party to fix the error.  After all, the "gassing of his own people!" had
already taken place when the US provided the various chemical weaponry.

Jeff