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Who really armed Saddam Hussein?

Weapons Imported By Iraq 1973-2002
Share Of Sales By Country

LET’S PUT THIS ONE TO REST RIGHT NOW Before and during the conduct of the war in Iraq we all heard from folks who wanted to make sure we knew that it was the United States that armed Saddam Hussein in the first place.

Now … the details. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute gathered the information together on arms sales to Iraq from 1973 through 2002. This graph shows the various countries who participated in arming Iraq and the percentage of the Iraqi arms sales business held by each. I found this in the current issue of The Weekly Standard.

Please pay particular attention to the color codes. The very nations that didn't want to go to war against Iraq were the nations that armed Iraq in the first place.