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The report noted further that U.S. exports to Iraq included the precursors to chemical-warfare agents, plans for chemical and biological warfare production facilities, and chemical-warhead filling equipment
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I have to disagree, this statement is a little stronger than saying America sold Iraq possible ingredients for these weapons. The claim is that they sold them the raw materials, the tools to put them together, and the cook book to make them... to me there is no qualitative difference between saying someone has sold Iraq chemical weapons and saying someone has sold Iraq all the materials to build chemical weapons and an instruction book.
And this article is quoting a 1994 US Senate report in this instance, so it is not a case of just some left wing website making conjuncture.
The fact that the article quotes $1.5 billion worth of military and biological weapons material shipped to Iraq between 85-90 alone, while your report quotes only $200 million, shows the power of definition. Selling someone a shell filled with mustard gas may count as selling a weapon, selling mustard gas and instructions on how to make it into a bomb may not be considered a weapon sale by your report - but the effect is the same, the intention is the same - when you you sell people mustard gas (which I only use as an example) you know, reasonably, what they probably want it for.