The real cost of IRAQ: PTSD and the second war

[Undertoad]

Sounds like peanuts to me, on the global scale.

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Sounds like peanuts to me, on the global scale.

40 BILLION smackers?
howitzers, helicopters, bombs and other weapons?
Data for 18 months thru a Washington-Baghdad intelligence link which was used to calibrate mustard gas attacks and was essential to Iraq's war effort against Iran?

If that's "peanuts," I'd like to see the elephant!

[tw]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Sounds like peanuts to me, on the global scale.

We limit our satellite photographs to only the closest of friends. This even moreso in the 1980s. We routinely provided Saddam with satellite photography in his war with Iran. That comes about as close to 'ally' as could be. Satellite photos are were about as sensitive as anything the US intelligence community can provide anyone. It is only provided to allies. Saddam was provided with satellite photos.