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I think enabling Putin is putting a lot more than thousands of lives at risk

by CuriouslyC 2y ago

oblio 2y ago
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- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > argue that the US honestly feels bad about that decision In no small part because it was a strategic disaster. Iraq went from being a bulwark against Iran to, at best, contested ground.
  - lupusreal 2y ago
    > Iraq went from being a bulwark against Iran Incidentally, the US knowingly and deliberately assisted Iraq in the use of chemical weapons against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War.
    - EasyMark 2y ago
      Got a source for that?
      - lupusreal 2y ago
        > Reporter Michael Dobbs of the Washington Post stated that Reagan's administration was well aware that the materials sold to Iraq would be used to manufacture chemical weapons for use in the war against Iran. He stated that Iraq's use of chemical weapons was "hardly a secret, with the Iraqi military issuing this warning in February 1984: 'The invaders should know that for every harmful insect, there is an insecticide capable of annihilating it ... and Iraq possesses this annihilation insecticide.'" According to Reagan's foreign policy, every attempt to save Iraq was necessary and legal.[4] > According to Iraqi documents, assistance in the development of chemical weapons was obtained from firms in many countries, including the United States, West Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France. A report stated that Dutch, Australian, Italian, French and both West and East German companies were involved in the export of raw materials to Iraqi chemical weapons factories.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_against_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_against... > Declassified CIA documents show that the United States was providing reconnaissance intelligence to Iraq around 1987–88 which was then used to launch chemical weapon attacks on Iranian troops and that the CIA fully knew that chemical weapons would be deployed and sarin and cyclosarin attacks followed.[263] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War#Iraq's_use_of_chemical_weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War#Iraq's_use_of_ch...

I think enabling Putin is putting a lot more than thousands of lives at risk

oblio 2y ago

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JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> argue that the US honestly feels bad about that decision In no small part because it was a strategic disaster. Iraq went from being a bulwark against Iran to, at best, contested ground.
- lupusreal 2y ago
  > Iraq went from being a bulwark against Iran Incidentally, the US knowingly and deliberately assisted Iraq in the use of chemical weapons against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War.
  - EasyMark 2y ago
    Got a source for that?
    - lupusreal 2y ago
      > Reporter Michael Dobbs of the Washington Post stated that Reagan's administration was well aware that the materials sold to Iraq would be used to manufacture chemical weapons for use in the war against Iran. He stated that Iraq's use of chemical weapons was "hardly a secret, with the Iraqi military issuing this warning in February 1984: 'The invaders should know that for every harmful insect, there is an insecticide capable of annihilating it ... and Iraq possesses this annihilation insecticide.'" According to Reagan's foreign policy, every attempt to save Iraq was necessary and legal.[4] > According to Iraqi documents, assistance in the development of chemical weapons was obtained from firms in many countries, including the United States, West Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France. A report stated that Dutch, Australian, Italian, French and both West and East German companies were involved in the export of raw materials to Iraqi chemical weapons factories.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_against_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_against... > Declassified CIA documents show that the United States was providing reconnaissance intelligence to Iraq around 1987–88 which was then used to launch chemical weapon attacks on Iranian troops and that the CIA fully knew that chemical weapons would be deployed and sarin and cyclosarin attacks followed.[263] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War#Iraq's_use_of_chemical_weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War#Iraq's_use_of_ch...