Brilliantly, sadly observed

[ish mailian]

Your saying that the US supplied weapons and intelligence to Iraq, and
encouraged Iraq to wage war on Iran as early as September 1980, or earlier?
If you are correct it would need to be earlier, right? Were these weapons
Soviet weapons, parts, and were the advisors experts in Soviet weapons?
Iraq had built a sizable military with Soviet weaponry. We know that
weapons and parts and advisors form over a dozen countries, including, of
course, Germany's Chemical weapons, flood the war later, but how did the US
encourage and support Iraq at the start and leading up to the conflict?
That is, before September 1980? Can you tell me where I can read of this
astonishing history? So many documents and, of course, lots of intelligence
from both sides we discovered by the US when it invaded Iraq, was it in
these discoveries that the history you speak of is to be found?

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> We supplied weapons, advisors and as the global superpower fully endorsed
> it. If we had not done so it is highly doubtful that Saddam would have
> started it.
>
>
> > On Nov 30, 2015, at 7:14 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > What US policies in particular led to the creation of ISIS?  1)we ok’d
> the idea of seizing land through war by provoking and helping the Iraqi war
> on Iran
> >
> >
> > We ok'd it?  How about the fact that the two nations were generally
> hostile toward one another for a long time. How about Islam? The Bath party
> was rightfully fearful that Khomeini would stir up rebellion in southern
> Iraq. How about territorial disputes, especially the conflict over the
> Shatt al-'Arab River.
> >
> > The dispute over the Shatt Al-Arab waterway threatens once more to
> derail the peace talks between Iraq and Iran, and could ultimately end the
> truce between the two countries. However, as this historical account shows,
> the controversy involving this shallow, 127-mile-long strategic waterway
> has been the subject of treaties signed in 1843, 1937, and 1975, and
> continues to loom as an intractable problem.
> >
> >
> http://www.wrmea.org/1989-april/the-shatt-al-arab-obstacle-to-iran-iraq-peace.html
> >
>
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