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>>One final thought... I wonder if those musty old gas weapons had a "made in the USA" label on them.
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>If I was in a foul mood I'd say that was an insult. Not only do I believe that we are proscribed by law from selling chemical weapons abroad, but the technology for something like mustard gas is amazingly simple. Why would we take the risk of making and transporting them ourselves? Selling/transfering the plans would be much easier, and less traceable.

It wasn't meant at all as an insult, but rather as a reminder that the U.S. supplied Iraq during its war with Iran, where it is known that Iraq used "WMD" (gas at least). Is it a stretch to allow that such weapons ***might*** have come from the U.S.?
You must have seen the famous video clip of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam.

Finally, I believe that the U.S. has large stockpiles of such "WMD" itself, even today.