CarolC 27 Jun 06 - 03:43 PM - Completely wrong CarolC for a whole raft of reasons.

Greg F. 27 Jun 06 - 12:03 PM

"dual use equipment" - some noted examples of such:

Would you call a pencil a deadly weapon Greg F - you can certainly kill somebody with one very easily.

Most people have lurking under their kitchen sinks sufficient ingredients to blow themselves and their houses to kingdom come. Now none of this stuff is controlled, all in its own right is perfectly harmless, yet when combined with a certain amount of knowledge it is deadly.

In another thread quite recently we had the massive catalogue of weapons shipped by the US and UK to prop up their bad-guy of the day, Saddam while he was fighting the Iranians, it amounted to little or no weapons at all, in fact over the period covered it amounted to less than 0.005%. The Russians on the other hand supplied Saddam with 61% of his needs and the French I think something like 18%. So please don't go banging on about how much this or that US administration supported Saddam Hussein with arms and weapons - the plain fact of the matter is that they didn't others did.