On 13 Jan 2004 18:35:27 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote:
Again, the statement made was the the US supported Saddam while he was
gassing Kurds.

And yes, the US clearly did as I will now demonstrate, ignore or deny
it as you will - from the US President, US Government, US Citizens
from the coalmines of Kentucky to the California sun,to American Moms
Dads and US Taxpayers one and all in there boots and all feeding
greenbacks as fast as they could to their old mate Uncle Saddam in
various forms of financial assistance from subsdidies to loan
guarantees.

I guess that includes you too Tchiowa - hence your dumb-ox denial of
incontrovertible facts, presumably to salve your own teenage
conscience or the guilt of your parents.

See here -

"The loan guarantees amounted to a massive US subsidy that allowed
Hussein to launch his overt and covert arms buildup, one result being
that the Iran-Iraq war entered a bloody five-year stalemate.

By the end of 1983, US$402 million in agriculture department loan
guarantees for Iraq were approved. In 1984, this increased to $503
million and reached $1.1 billion in 1988. Between 1983 and 1990, CCC
loan guarantees freed up more than $5 billion. Some $2 billion in bad
loans, plus interest, ended up having to be covered by US taxpayers.

A similar taxpayer-funded, though smaller scale, scam operated under
the auspices of the federal Export-Import Bank. In 1984,
vice-president George Bush senior personally intervened to ensure that
the bank guaranteed loans to Iraq of $500 million to build an oil
pipeline. Export-Import Bank loan guarantees grew from $35 million in
1985 to $267 million by 1990."

Unless you have some interplanetary method of measuring time this DOES
span the entire period both before, during and after that US
Americans financially (and morally - remember they had Intel)
supported Saddam while he merrily gassed the Kurds, and I might add
from US supplied helos.

The statement was not "US businesses imported or
exported to Iraq after the attack" or anything like that. A very
specific statement. And it simply isn't true. And nothing you posted
contradicts that.

See above!

Furthermore what was posted previously certainly does contradict your
ridiculous denial - FYI all of those trade deals required State
Department approval - which was willingly given.

And don't bother asking for a reference to the quote above - locate it
yourself - if you can - mindless trolling idiot.