i'm not sure who sold more weapons to iraq. But the words: reliable data unavailable, make me doubt these numbers.
We've known these figures for such a long time apparently since they're now publicly available information. How many people remember Dubya hosting Putin at his ranch in Crawford last year? Oh wait, does this mean that these numbers weren't so important a year ago and now they're suddenly significant? Your numbers indicate years of violations that we've known about. One day we're shaking their hands, blissfully ignorant of indescretions and the next day we're blaming them for arming our enemies? Come on now, any intelligence professional can tell you that this kind of information doesn't become public knowledge long before our government knows exactly what is going on. The problem with these kind of revelations is that people like me remember way too much. This is the kind of stuff that us conspiracy nuts use as bread and butter. On one hand you're telling us that we have solid links to multiple terrorist organizations and on the other hand you're telling us we didn't know about major arms shipments to Iraq for the past 10 years. This stretches the limits of credibility way beyond anything you can spin. You see, by posting these kind of rebuttals you are only doing damage to your own argument. One post indicates our intel apparatus is infailable, the next post indicates that it is extremely incompetent. discuss
