How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them

[R]

At 11:02 AM 9/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Gar Lipow wrote:
>
>>  OK not a main argument against invastion - but a good reply to one 
>> argument.
>>
>>The claim is that Iraq was uniquely evil because of
>>
>>1) Actually having used WMD
>>
>>2) Because he used them against his own people.
>>
>>
>>That we sold them to him at the time he was doing this is a good reply to 
>>these - since apparently we did not think these particular things made 
>>him uniquely evil at the time. And it is a special point that Cheney was 
>>one of the ones who sold  stuff to him.
>
>So what? That's history, as 41 used to say to dismiss something as 
>irrelevant. Or, that was then, this was now. Saddam (or my role model, 
>Gulbuddin Hekmatyar) was an important ally in our struggle against Iran 
>(or the USSR). But they've since gone on to terrible things, and we must 
>stop them.
>
>Doug

OK, doug, you stop them.

R