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Jackson4Gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 12:11 PM
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What did Reagan give Saddam
I need the page where it has info on what Reagan supplied Saddam with in the 1980's. There was a great detailed page that showed all the info, but I lost it. Any help is appreciated.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 12:14 PM
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1. Here's One
Soon thereafter, Donald Rumsfeld (who had served in various positions in the Nixon and Ford administrations, including as President Ford's defense secretary, and at this time headed the multinational pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle & Co.) was dispatched to the Middle East as a presidential envoy. His December 1983 tour of regional capitals included Baghdad, where he was to establish "direct contact between an envoy of President Reagan and President Saddam Hussein," while emphasizing "his close relationship" with the president . Rumsfeld met with Saddam, and the two discussed regional issues of mutual interest, shared enmity toward Iran and Syria, and the U.S.'s efforts to find alternative routes to transport Iraq's oil; its facilities in the Persian Gulf had been shut down by Iran, and Iran's ally, Syria, had cut off a pipeline that transported Iraqi oil through its territory. Rumsfeld made no reference to chemical weapons, according to detailed notes on the meeting .


Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 12:18 PM
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2. anthrax, VX, West Nile, botulinum
and that's not all!

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htm

Reports by the US Senate's committee on banking, housing and urban affairs -- which oversees American exports policy -- reveal that the US, under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr, sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, as well as germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia. Other bacteria sold included brucella melitensis, which damages major organs, and clostridium perfringens, which causes gas gangrene.


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Jackson4Gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 12:28 PM
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3. Does anyone have a page that
shows in detail all of the weapons that was gave? This page was in an outline form with alot of detail.
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