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Originally Posted by MTI
We sold him the copters to do some of the gassing, provide intel to calibrate the operation, we okayed the shipment of biological cultures, sent dual use technology that turned up in weapons labs, kept his country off the list of nations sponsoring terrorism and gave him a $1B loan guarantee just before he invaded Kuwait . . . you don't consider that "close?"
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Did we sell him the helocopter in order to gas people?
When you say, "dual use" you mean cultures like anthrax that can be weaponized or used to test vaccines. Are you suggesting that he weaponized Anthrax? That would be in violation of his agreement, post GW I and thus, causus belli. I don't think you meant that, did you?
What was the loan guarantee for? Is that important?
And no, I don't think this means we had a 'close relationship' with him. It meant we were using him to keep Iran under threat so they wouldn't develop and deploy nukes. It worked wonderfully and I think it was a very effective strategy.