OK, here are two sentences, please come back to me if you can see any difference in what those two sentences say:

1. In 1975 the US Government knowingly helped Iraq obtain the technology to build its first chemical warfare plant.

2. In 1975 the US Government knowingly helped Iraq build its first chemical warfare plant.

The first sentence is what Saïd K Aburish, the former government Minister under Saddam Hussein, actually wrote.

The second represents the message freda underhill was trying to put across.

Oh, by the bye Jack the Sailor, the resolution that eventually acquired the number 1441 was proposed by the United States of America. It was seconded and supported by the United Kingdom and Spain in the Security Council when proposed. Er, that is how resolutions are tabled, it is also how motions are normally proposed in most formal meetings, first it has to be formally proposed and then seconded before the "chair" can recognise it as a subject for discussion. The above, I believe, should be common enough knowledge.