Ochi reason number one...

[Occhidiangela]

OK, here is one piece.

After the war, in addition to tens of thousands of other chemical munitions, U.N. inspectors -- now listen carefully to this -- U.N. inspectors found and destroyed 28 SCUD chemical warheads containing the chemical nerve agent Sarin.

According to a Department of Defense official, these warheads had been obtained from the former Soviet Union.

Then there was this bit.

24. Are you familiar with the 1994 Senate Hearings that revealed the U.S. knowingly supplied chemical and biological materials to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war and as late as 1992- including after the alleged Iraqi gas attack on a Kurdish village?

On the first scan of the 1994 report, I did not see what he was referring to, but I will read it again.

What I could not ascertain was whether or not the dual use materials were on a list of prohibited materials for export under US law, or under UN resolutions, but I may have missed it. If so, I wonder why the Clinton and Bushadministrations, and the associated Secretary of commerce for each, allowed the export. That strikes me as bizarre in the extreme, and inconsistent with non proliferation policies that reach back to the Nixon era.

Thanks again for the link. :) I will comment again after I read the testimony again.