pues si, se han arruinado varias generaciones de iraquies
ese país tiene un futuro muy negro por décadas y toda su economía queda en manos extrajeras
Esa era la finalidad de la guerra. Y esa finalidad se cumplió a cabalidad. Pero hay algunos despistados que han asegurado que Estados Unidos se retira derrotado...
Un chiste que surge desde la ignorancia.
En cuanto a las armas de destrucción masiva hay cierto y hay verdad.
Durante la guerra Irak-Iran, Estados Unidos proveyó a Irak de sus primeras armas biológicas. Dentro de lo cual había material bélico e información y materiales para producirlas.
Irak utilizó gas mostaza en su guerra contra Irán en 1983. En marzo de 1984 Irak atacó con tabun, un agente nervioso que según entiendo, fue la primera vez que se usó en una guerra. Además, la misma CIA, mientras era director William Casey trabajó en la entrega de bombas cluster a Irak, tarea que realizó junto al funcionario del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de la Casa Blanca encargado de asuntos de Medio Oriente, Howard Teicher.
Donald Rumsfeld por la época era enviado especial del presidente Ronald Reagan. y en 2002 negó que se haya prestado esta ayuda a Irak.
Sn embargo existen archivosa oficiales desclasificados que lo prueban.
Estos fueron colgados en Internet por la "Federación de Científicos Americanos"
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"Congressional Record: September 20, 2002 (Senate)
Page S8987-S8998
HOW SADDAM HAPPENED
Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, yesterday, at a hearing of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, I asked a question of the Secretary of Defense. I
referred to a Newsweek article that will appear in the September 23,
2002, edition. That article reads as follows. It is not overly lengthy.
I shall read it. Beginning on page 35 of Newsweek, here is what the
article says:
America helped make a monster. What to do with him--and
what happens after he is gone--has haunted us for a quarter
century.
The article is written by Christopher Dickey and Evan Thomas. It
reads as follows:
The last time Donald Rumsfeld saw Saddam Hussein, he gave
him a cordial handshake. The date was almost 20 years ago,
Dec. 20, 1983; an official Iraqi television crew recorded the
historic moment.
The once and future Defense secretary, at the time a
private citizen, had been sent by President Ronald Reagan to
Baghdad as a special envoy. Saddam Hussein, armed with a
pistol on his hip, seemed "vigorous and confident,"
according to a now declassified State Department cable
obtained by Newsweek. Rumsfeld "conveyed the President's
greetings and expressed his pleasure at being in Baghdad,"
wrote the notetaker. Then the two men got down to business,
talking about the need to improve relations between their two
countries.
Like most foreign-policy insiders, Rumsfeld was aware that
Saddam was a murderous thug who supported terrorists and was
trying to build a nuclear weapon. (The Israelis had already
bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak.) But at the time,
America's big worry was Iran, not Iraq. The Reagan
administration feared that the Iranian revolutionaries who
had overthrown the shah (and taken hostage American diplomats
for 444 days in 1979-81) would overrun the Middle East and
its vital oilfields. On the--theory that the enemy of my
enemy is my friend, the Reaganites were seeking to support
Iraq in a long and bloody war against Iran. The meeting
between Rumsfeld and Saddam was consequential: for the next
five years, until Iran finally capitulated, the United States
backed Saddam's armies with military intelligence, economic
aid and covert supplies of munitions.
Rumsfeld is not the first American diplomat to wish for the
demise of a former ally. After all, before the cold war, the
Soviet Union was America's partner against Hitler in World
War II. In the real world, as the saying goes, nations have
no permanent friends, just permanent interests. Nonetheless,
Rumsfeld's long-ago interlude with Saddam is a reminder that
today's friend can be tomorrow's mortal threat. As President
George W. Bush and his war cabinet ponder Saddam's
successor's regime, they would do well to contemplate how and
why the last three presidents allowed the Butcher of Baghdad
to stay in power so long.
The history of America's relations with Saddam is one of
the sorrier tales in American foreign policy. Time and again,
America turned a blind eye to Saddam's predations, saw him as
the lesser evil or flinched at the chance to unseat him. No
single policymaker or administration deserves blame for
creating, or at least tolerating, a monster; many of their
decisions seemed reasonable at the time. Even so, there are
moments in this clumsy dance with the Devil that make one
cringe. It is hard to believe that, during most of the 1980s,
America knowingly permitted the Iraq Atomic Energy Commission
to import bacterial cultures that might be used to build
biological weapons"
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Las armas de destrucción masiva existían en Irak al momento de la invasión, pero el asunto es que mostrarlas al mundo significaba mostrar las pruebas de que el abastecedor de este tipo de armas prohibidas era el mismo gobierno acusador.