Reply #32: WMD have been available to terrorists for decades but

[Barkley]

its state governments (like ours) that have used and produced them the most.

We helped Saddam get his WMD.

It was Rumsfeld and Shultz who told Hussein and his emissaries that US statements generally condemning the use of chemical weapons would not interfere with relations between secular Iraq and the Reagan Administration, which took Iraq off the terrorist-nations list and embraced Hussein as a bulwark against fundamentalist Iran. Ironically, the United States supported Iraq when it possessed and used weapons of mass destruction and invaded it when it didn't.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20040112&s=scheer1230