If US arms manufacturers sold weapons and exported WEAPONS to Saddam Hussein please provide details. You have specifically stated that chemical weapons were sold - please don't give a long list of component parts and materials which through some convoluted process might possibly be used as part of a weapon (Making chemical agents is easy, any facility that makes fertilizer can do it - weaponising those agents thankfully is extremely difficult)

During the Iran/Iraq War both the US and the USSR aided both sides at the same time. The USA gave intelligence information to Iraq but no weapons. The USA did give weapons to Iran via Israel as the military inventory that the Iranians had was practically all US acquired by the Shah.

"The shock and awe served to mobilize Islamic extremists
in every Mid East country"

Really?? Care to take a look at the track record? We have been "at war" with Islamic extremists since 1971.

But as far as the USA goes:
1983 - USMC Barracks Beirut Bombed
1993 - WTC Attack
1996 - ObL's first Fatwa issued & Khobar Towers Attack
1998 - ObL's second Fatwa issued & US East African Embassies attacked
2000 - USS Cole attacked
2001 - WTC & Pentagon attacked

Since that date care to fill in? Nothing anywhere near as numerous or as deadly. Yet according to you the world of extremist Islam was only galvanized into action due to the actions of GWB - grow up.

Now what did the March 2003 invasion of Iraq result in:

1: We can now be sure 100% that there are no WMD in Iraq
2: We learned about Iran's secret uranium enrichment plants
3: Libya renounced its WMD programmes including a secret nuclear weapons programme.
4: The illegal nuclear weapons proliferation network of Pakistani Dr A.Q.Khan was exposed and shut down
5: Syria's secret nuclear weapons programme was discovered and destroyed.

" the US armed forces have no chemical or biological weapons in their inventory"

Now I have asked this question before and it was met with complete and utter silence, but just for your benefit and for Greg F's I will ask it again:

Within our Mudcat fraternity there must be ex-serving members of the US Armed Forces - I invite any of them to contradict the statement I have made above regarding chemical or biological weapons - perhaps any weapons armourers, ordnance techs, missile and gunnery specialists can indeed confirm that they handled US chemical and biological weapons all the time in order to refute what I have stated - the floor is yours

Guess what? I am not holding my breath.