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Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly Built Saddam's War Machine (Northeastern Series in Transnational Crime)

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Mark Phythian is an international authority on the arms trade. In 'Arming Iraq' he produces a cogent critique of the policy that led to the arming of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship - a dictatorship already notorious for its gross violations of human rights. He also uncovers the devious methods which the arms suppliers used to beat official sanctions against the regime and the connivance of governments that had introduced sanctions in the first place.The British Conservative Government in particular emerges discreditably from this account. Indeed the reverberations of this unsavoury episode continue and help to explain the atmosphere of 'sleaze' which brought about its electoral downfall in 1997.Anyone interested in the arms trade and the problem of democratic accountability would be well advised to read this meticulously researched monograph

I JUST HOPED THAT THEIR WAS A WAY TO CONVINCE AND TEACH THE ORDENARY PEOPLE OF WHAT GOES ON IN THIS WORLD,UNFORTUNATLY MOST PEOPLE ARE SO NAIVE AND STUPID THAT THEY ONLY BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY SEE OR HERE THROUGH THE MEDIA AND SPECIALY WHEN THEY LISTEN TO THEIR LEADERS,THESE IDIOTS TRULEY BELIEVE IN THEM AND NOT REALISING WHO THE REAL CRIMINALS ARE,BUT YET AGAIN I GUESS TO BE A REAL CRIMINAL POLETICION,THE MIDDLE EAST OR IRAQ IS NOT THE PLACE TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB IT IS INFACT THE WESTERN COUNTRIES,SUCH AS THE U.S.A.,GREAT BRITAIN,AND THE REMAINING POPETS.