Is this why no one found WMDs in Iraq?Jon Rappoport There was a WMD depot in Iraq that wasnt a depot. There were people who said they had secret evidence Saddam shipped weapons out of the country. And maybe they did have evidence. But this is a different story. It involves the prospect of inspectors finding very serious weapons and then saying, Wait! The weapons containers have American labels on them! That didnt happen, but it could have. And then what a fiasco would have ensued, since the US government was about to wage war to end Saddams threat. Yet, the US had armed him. In 1975, the US signed on to an international treaty banning the production, use, and stockpiling of biological weapons. Ditto for chemical weapons, in 1993. Another treaty. Heres a quote from the Washington Post (9/4/13, When the US looked the other way on chemical weapons): The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous itemsincluding poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic plague Between 1985 and 1989, a US 501C3 firm, American Type Culture Collection, sent Iraq up to 70 shipments of various biowar agents, including 21 strains of anthrax. Between 1984 and 1989, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) sent Iraq at least 80 different biowar agents, including botulinum toxoid, dengue virus, and West Nile antigen and antibody. Then we have a comprehensive article by William Blum in the April 1998 Progressive called Anthrax Report. Blum cites a 1994 Senate report confirming that, in this 1985-1989 time period, US shipments of anthrax and other biowar agents to Iraq were licensed bydrum roll, cymbal crashthe US Dept. of Commerce. Blum quotes from the Senate report: These biological materials were not attenuated or weakened and were capable of reproduction. It was later learned that these microorganisms exported by the United States were identical to those the United Nations inspectors found and removed from the Iraqi biological warfare program. This 1994 Senate report also indicates that the US exported to Iraq the precursors for chemwar agents, actual plans for chemical and biowar production facilities, and chemical-warhead filling equipment. The exports continued until at least November 28, 1989. Blum lists a few other biowar agents the US shipped to Iraq. Histoplasma Capsulatum, Brucella Melitensis, Clostridium Perfringens, Clostridium tetanias well as E. coli, various genetic materials, human and bacterial DNA. Blum also points out that a 1994 Pentagon report dismissed any connection between all these biowar agents and Gulf War Illness. But the researcher who headed up that study, Joshua Lederberg, was actually a director of the US firm that had provided the most biowar material to Iraq in the 1980s: the American Type Culture Collection. Newsday revealed that the CEO of the American Type Culture Collection was a member of the US Dept. of Commerces Technical Advisory Committee. See, the Dept. of Commerce had to license and approve all those exports of biowar agents carried out by the American Type Culture Collection. Get the picture? Now, as to other US companies which dealt biowar or chemwar agents to Iraqall such sales having been okayed by the US governmentthe names of these companies are contained in records of the 1992 Senate hearings, United States export policy toward Iraq prior to Iraqs invasion of Kuwait: Mouse Master (Georgia), Sullaire Corp (Charlotte, North Carolina), Pure Aire (Charlotte, North Carolina), Posi Seal (Conn.), Union Carbide (Conn.), Evapco (Maryland), BDM Corp (Virginia), Spectra Physics (Calif.). There are about a dozen more. Hewlett Packard said that the recipient of its shipments, Saad 16, was some sort of school in Iraq. But in 1990, the Wall St. Journal stated that Saad 16 was a heavily fortified, state-of-the-art [Iraqi] complex for aircraft construction, missile design, and, almost certainly, nuclear-weapons research. There has been a considerable debate about whether Saddam hid some of his bio/chem weapons in Syria, to evade UN weapons inspectors. If he did, then is it possible the current situation in Syria has a few of its roots in the US? Is it possible some of Syrias WMDs originally came from America? If you review and think about all these WMD shipments from the US to Iraq, you understand there were many US officials and corporate employees who knew about them. Knew about them then, in the 1980s, and knew about them later, during 2 US wars in Iraq, when American soldiers were sent to Iraq, and could have been exposed to the bio/chem weapons. And these officials and employees said nothing. Officials at the CDC and the Dept. of Commerce said nothing. People at the American Type Culture Collection said nothing. People at the Pentagon and the CIA and the NSA said nothing. Presidents said nothing. Employees of the corporations who supplied germs and chemicals said nothing. Its clear that the US government shipped those bio/chem weapons to Iraq to aid it in its war against Iran. And yes, Iraq did use chemical weapons against Iranand also against the Iraqi Kurds. Perhaps you remember that, much later, the US government repeated, over and over, Saddam used chemical weapons against the Kurds, his own people, as a reason for attacking Iraq. So is there any limit beyond which the US government wouldnt go to foment war, to wage war? Thats a rhetorical question. Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From the Matrix, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com Those chemical weapons were destroyed in the first Gulf War. Sadaam had no more. He never had weapons of mass destruction(nuclear weapons). Biological weapons can be produced in any facility that produces cheese. They were given to Saddam back when he was our buddy at war with Iran. Are you too young to remember that? 