Teribus,
Come. ...come Terribus!

In your original postings you asked me to provide evidence of the military equipment and weapons supplied by Britain to Iraq. This I have done,I have quOted you the source ...a very reputable team of journalists emplyed by the Guardian ...they used a mass of documentary evidence to reveal the skeleton in the British arms to Iraq scandalwhich amounted to a billion pounds worth of British arms and military equipment sent to Iraq.

Business was booming for the arms dealers and Downing St politicians!
The bill was unpaid by Saddam but was paid to the arms dealers and manufacturers by the British taxpayer....this at a time when Thatcher was running down our health service and butchering the mining industry .

You seem reluctant to accept the point that Britain sent this military hardware to Iraq to support Saddam...but you make the point that the "weapons sent were somehow inferior. They may well be but that is not the point I was making.

I will quote part of the lenghty article to you and others reluctant to believe that Britain was a major supplier of military equipment o Saddam
"In 1987 Marconi Command and Control got a bank loan of of £10 million ,backed by the taxpayer to sell Amets-the artillery Meteorological System -to the Iraqi army.Crucial for accurate artillery fire ,Amets uses weather ballooons linked to radar to measure wind speeds.
The Export Credit Gurantee Dept ended up writing a cheque for £8.2 when Marconi failed to get its money."

Of course you war guys seem to have selective amnesia when it comes to arming Saddam's Iraq.

However, anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the Scott Report into British Arms dealing with Iraq will know some info about the extent of the arming of Saddam by Britain.
Ifor