I’d also appreciate a bit more background to this:

They (Iraq) really did have chemical weapons. West Germany sold them the chemicals. The CIA helped them to develop the weapons, and CIA advisers told them exactly where in Iran to drop them.

Here’s a link from the BBC. You’ll see in the side notes a bit of detail which states

Who supplied the chemicals?

Precursor chemicals and manufacturing equipment came from a variety of sources – the government of Iraq had a great deal of indigenous capacity for manufacturing the weapons
Many of the shells found at Halabja have Soviet markings
With regard to Western companies, there is data pointing to 85 German, 19 French, 18 British and 18 US suppliers

Christine Gosden, Liverpool University

Have a look here and here too.

Feel free to contact iraqbodycount.org to ask for verification of their stats. Remember its an anti-war site so it’s likely to try and keep the numbers as high as possible.

Feeling rock solid on these facts btw. Happy Friday.

@jimjam – we know the West and Russia sold lots of weapons to Iran and Iraq. Conventional weapons, not chemical.

@jimjam – we know the West and Russia sold lots of weapons to Iran and Iraq. Conventional weapons, not chemical.

Why do you post nonsense like that in the vague hope that it will go unchallenged?

Admittedly it is tedious to constantly correct your false claims, is that the strategy – carry on doing it until no one bothers anymore?

The US provided less conventional military equipment than British or German companies but it did allow the export of biological agents, including anthrax; vital ingredients for chemical weapons; and cluster bombs sold by a CIA front organisation in Chile

A 1994 congressional inquiry also found that dozens of biological agents, including various strains of anthrax, had been shipped to Iraq by US companies, under licence from the commerce department. [/b]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/31/iraq.politics

Such a shame we failed to find the chemical weapons they probably kept them with the weapons of mass destruction that we also failed to find.

Imagine if if they had secret nukes acquired by dubious means, they were formed by terrorists who went on to be their leaders and they still did state sponsored assassinations of elected leaders on foreign soil whilst stealing land in wars and ignoring UN resolutions.

Now their is a country one could support eh Jambalaya

Feeling rock solid on these facts btw

That is the beauty about always being 100 % correct you can always be confident as you and JH so admirably demonstrate.

Ps I am as confident in my facts as I am in you ignoring them 🙂

Out of interest have they killed more Muslims than ISIS? I accept their per year rate is unlikely to be high but I would be surprised if the answer was no.

Some more back ground on CAGE.

Was originally formed by/in support of an ex Guantanimo internee.

Funded by Anita Roddick (Body Shop) Foundation (£120k) and Joseph Roundtree Foundation (£300k) amongst others

Amnesty International’s head of Womens Rights resigned/was forced out in 2010 for speaking out against Amnesty’s involvement with CAGE. Amnesty has worked closely with CAGE producing joint reports and published letters. Amnesty is now backpedaling furiously on it’s involvement.

JY, as an aside in Iraq and Syria we have had something like 200,000-300,000 Muslims killed by other Muslims as a result of sectarian violence/civil war including at the hands of ISIS and Al-Q. As the head Imam in Paris said after Charlie Ebdo/Hpyerkache the Muslim community has suffered 95% (probably slightly too high but of the right order of magnitude) of the terrorist casualties. Assad has killed more Palestinians than has any other nation, the lady suicide bomber in jail in Jordan her husband blew up a Palestinian wedding, her explosives didn’t detonate.

Always wondered who supplies the weapons in all these ‘Muslim on Muslim conflicts’

What do Saudi Arabia do with all the arms provided by the UK for example?

One source of information in Syrian casualties linked below.

Aleppo has a large Palestinian population 22,000 deaths in that city alone.

Violation Documentation Centre in Syria