US
government spokespeople---falling all over themselves to insist America
would never ever set up, own, or fund biowar research labs in the
Ukraine---
And would never lie about the subject---
Insisting America’s track record is clean---
And its motives pure as the driven snow---
So that's it, right? Case closed.
Well, how about this for track record:
The US sends bio/chem/nuclear war materials and tech to a foreign nation.
Then threatens to invade that nation because it possesses weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Inspectors travel to that nation.
The inspectors report they can’t find conclusive evidence of WMD.
The US invades that nation anyway. War.
“Well, we knew they had WMD because we sent WMD to them.”
How’s that for an insane situation and a war crime?
The foreign nation is of course Iraq. And George W Bush launched the war in 2003---with the approval of Congress.
If
the federal government of that nation---AMERICA---told you, in 2022,
ANYTHING about biowar labs or WMD, would you believe them?
Read on. Here is a strange twisted grotesque story of the US supplying WMD to Saddam Hussein. I wrote and published it in 2016.
Wherever
the word “virus” appears or is implied, I now intend it to mean “serum
containing many compounds, some of which are moderately toxic, but no
proven viruses.”
Nevertheless,
there’s plenty of other WMD. And by the way, one of the American
suppliers? THE CDC. THE US CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL. You may have
heard of them.
Here we go:
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.
Here’s
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
items…including 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.
This
information on the American Type Culture Collection and the CDC comes
from a report, “Iraq’s Biological Weapons Program,” prepared by the
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).
Then
we have a comprehensive article by William Blum in the April 1998
Progressive called “Anthrax for Export.” 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 by…drum roll, cymbal
crash…the 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
tetani---as 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 Commerce’s 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
Iraq---all such sales having been approved by the US government---the
names of these companies are contained in records of the 1992 Senate
hearings, “United States Export Policy Toward Iraq Prior to Iraq’s
Invasion of Kuwait,” Senate Report 102-996, Senate Committee on Banking
Housing and Urban Affairs, 102d Congress, Second Session (October 27,
1992):
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.
This
also from the Blum article: “A larger number of American firms supplied
Iraq with the specialized computers, lasers, testing and analyzing
equipment, and other instruments and hardware vital to the manufacture
of nuclear weapons, missiles, and delivery systems. Computers, in
particular, play a key role in nuclear weapons development. Advanced
computers make it feasible to avoid carrying out nuclear test
explosions, thus preserving the program’s secrecy. The 1992 Senate
hearings implicated [Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA --- among others].”
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.”
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.
It’s
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 Iran---and 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 wouldn’t go to foment war, to wage war?
That’s a rhetorical question.
---end of my 2016 article---
NOW,
in 2022, when spokespeople proclaim the US government is innocent of
all charges relating to bio/chem/nuclear WMD, we’re supposed to believe
them?
Really?
And we’re supposed to have faith in the CDC concerning COVID---when the CDC was one of Saddam’s suppliers?
~~~
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here -- with sources.)
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