from which we learn that Denmark, Brazil and Poland all sold more arms to Saddam than the US. In fact America's share was minuscule. The vast majority was from Russia, China and France. By a curious co-incidence, those three countries are all permanent members of the Security Council of the UN. Clearly if you want to be a genocidal dictator and not be toppled, it's best to buy your weapons from those countries. If you can get long credit terms, they'll never vote to unseat you, because you'll owe them so much money!
As a total of all arms sales to Iraq from 1980-2002, America sold 0.58 per cent. See the link
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Date: 2006-07-09 10:33 am (UTC)Here are the facts:
http://dailyablution.blogs.com/the_daily_ablution/2003/12/how_the_us_arme.html
from which we learn that Denmark, Brazil and Poland all sold more arms to Saddam than the US. In fact America's share was minuscule. The vast majority was from Russia, China and France. By a curious co-incidence, those three countries are all permanent members of the Security Council of the UN. Clearly if you want to be a genocidal dictator and not be toppled, it's best to buy your weapons from those countries. If you can get long credit terms, they'll never vote to unseat you, because you'll owe them so much money!
As a total of all arms sales to Iraq from 1980-2002, America sold 0.58 per cent. See the link