In regard to the U. S. siding with Iraq during their war with Iran, the Reagan/Bush administration quietly took Iraq off of the list of terrorist countries so that they could sell them a fortune in dial-up technology that could be used for both civilian and military uses. The U.S. sold Saddam the precursors for biological and chemical weapons. Bell sold him the helicopters that he used to gas the Kurds. George H. W. Bush transferred satellite pictures of Iranian troop movements to Iraq using Mubarak as an intermediary. See, "Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq" by Alan Friedman or "Arming Iraq" online by Christian Dewar at democraticunderground.com.
Unfortunately, most Americans can only remember our involvement in Iran Iraq as far back as when our embassy was overrun and hostages were taken. They think this event occurred in a vacuum. They don't realize that we overthrew their democratically elected president on behalf of British and American oil companies who didn't want to see the oil nationalized and we installed our lackey the Shah and then trained his murderous intelligence agency, SAVAK, who tortured and disappeared their fellow citizens.
That was supposed to read dual-use technology. Autocorrect garbled my already unintelligible screeds.
In regard to the U. S. siding with Iraq during their war with Iran, the Reagan/Bush administration quietly took Iraq off of the list of terrorist countries so that they could sell them a fortune in dial-up technology that could be used for both civilian and military uses. The U.S. sold Saddam the precursors for biological and chemical weapons. Bell sold him the helicopters that he used to gas the Kurds. George H. W. Bush transferred satellite pictures of Iranian troop movements to Iraq using Mubarak as an intermediary. See, "Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq" by Alan Friedman or "Arming Iraq" online by Christian Dewar at democraticunderground.com.
You are right Janet. Mea culpa. Dr. Cole did mention Iran and so I was Addressing that.
Unfortunately, most Americans can only remember our involvement in Iran
Iraqas far back as when our embassy was overrun and hostages were taken. They think this event occurred in a vacuum. They don't realize that we overthrew their democratically elected president on behalf of British and American oil companies who didn't want to see the oil nationalized and we installed our lackey the Shah and then trained his murderous intelligence agency, SAVAK, who tortured and disappeared their fellow citizens.Strange bedfellows.