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Originally posted by SLM3
Many of the statements refuting what Endymon32 said were based on the fact that his main source left much to be desired as well as the contradictory evidence produced by the 12,000 page WMD dossier report.
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His main source listed mainly conventional weapons. I can see, tangentially, perhaps, that, for example, something like artillery may also fall in the WMD dossier. However, the point remains that the majority of Iraq's armed forces were not American, thus it is deceptive to say that "America armed Iraq."
He listed three sources -- the details may be different, but all three corroborate the same basic story, that Iraq's military was overwhelmingly non-American. In particular the monetary amounts appear to come from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
You two are firing over each other's heads -- SLM3, you believe that America was responsible for Iraq's WMD program, and Endymon32, you believe that America was not responsible for Iraq's military. Both of these you two believe fall under "weapons."
-- Alvin