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Originally posted by Gutterboy
I'm not sure I'd go that far. I don't know that we gave chem or bio stuff to Saddam or the Mujahadeen before they became they Taliban. From my understanding of the Afghan conflict, what really gave the Muja's the advantage was the Stinger missiles we started shipping over there. Bye bye Hind helicopters.
WMD's have proven very useful in the right hands. Without them, the Cold War would have been WWIII.
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Uh, stinger missles are not weapons of mass destruction? And we did indeed give saddam gas in the form of mustard gas to use against iran, who at the time was using cyanide gas against iraq. Its not exactly known what kind of weapons were given to iran terrorists in the iran/contra affair, but its probably fair to say they were deadly. And yes, the usa govt has always thought wmd's were ok as long as they were in the usa best interest. But you see nothing wrong with that?