If Bush lied to the American People about WMD, then What were the Democrats telling US about WMD in Iraq between 1996 and leading up to the invasion in 2003?
Remember when Saddam was our friend? And when American companies sold Saddam the material he needed to make chemical weapons? Remember that? So he could use them on the Kurds.
Where were we when we absolutely knew he had them and was using them? We didn't invade then.
Why not?
No Bush used the EXCUSE of Saddam to go to war for a reason that you or I haven't been told.
Actually, Saddam used a lot more chemical weapons on the Iranians during the war with them than he did on the Kurds.
We didn't invade him because he had not yet invaded Kuwait, and was not a threat to the rest of the middle east oil supply until then.
Here is a list of suppliers to Saddam:
All told, 52% of Iraq's international chemical weapon equipment was of German origin.
Around 21% of Iraqs international chemical weapon equipment was French.
About 100 tons of mustard gas also came from Brazil.
The United Kingdom paid for a chlorine factory that was intended to be used for manufacturing mustard gas
An Austrian company gave Iraq calutrons for enriching uranium. The nation also provided heat exchangers, tanks, condensers, and columns for the Iraqi chemical weapons infrastructure, 16% of the international sales.
Singapore gave 4,515 tons of precursors for VX, sarin, tabun, and mustard gasses to Iraq.
The Dutch gave 4,261 tons of precursors for sarin, tabun, mustard, and tear gasses to Iraq.
Egypt gave 2,400 tons of tabun and sarin precursors to Iraq and 28,500 tons of weapons designed for carrying chemical munitions.
India gave 2,343 tons of precursors to VX, tabun, Sarin, and mustard gasses.
Luxemburg gave Iraq 650 tons of mustard gas precursors.
Spain gave Iraq 57,500 munitions designed for carrying chemical weapons. In addition, they provided reactors, condensers, columns and tanks for Iraqs chemical warfare program, 4.4% of the international sales.
China provided 45,000 munitions designed for chemical warfare.
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