The Real Secret of Iraq’s Germ Weapons

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The Real Secret of Iraq’s Germ Weapons
Iraq | Military Technology
by Eric Margolis | October 19, 2014 - 9:22am

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While covering Iraq in 1990 – just before the first massive US bombing campaign – I discovered the US and Britain had secretly built a germ weapons arsenal for Iraq to use against Iran in the eight year-Iran-Iraq War.

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I found two British scientists who had been employed at Iraq’s top secret Salman Pak chemical and biowarfare laboratory near Baghdad. The Brits confided to me they were part of a large technical team secretly organized and “seconded” to Iraq in the mid-1980’s by the British government and the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service. Their goal was to develop and “weaponize” anthrax, plague, botulism and other pathogens for use as tactical germ weapons.

The US and Saudi Arabia feared Iran’s Islamic revolution would sweep the Mideast and overthrow its oil monarchs. So Washington and its Arab allies convinced Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, to invade Iran and overthrow its new government. Arms and money flowed to Iraq from the US, Britain, Kuwait and the Saudis.

After three years of WWI-style warfare, Iraq found its outnumbered troops could not stop Iranian human-wave attacks. Iran was slowly winning its bloody war against Iraq.

[bemildred]

1. Yep.

That's the problem. We lie, we lie al lthe time. We lie as a matter of policy and a matter of habit and a matter of law.

In the government, one is legally required to lie to the public. Telling the truth will get you put away. But if you lie, you will be protected.

And we never think ahead much farther than the next election, more or less in the same way that our managerial elites never think ahead more than the next financial report or two.

And then we wonder why our plans don't work out the way we expected.