Some things never change, and one of them is the extent in which people will go to deny responsibility for embarrassing actions. Rather than try to blame the USA or Israel for Iraq's poison gas, why not read a sad recap of the historical evidence. https://www.commentary.org/articles/michael-ledeen/iraqs-german-connection/ For well over a decade, hundreds—possibly even thousands—of German businessmen, scientists, and middlemen had played the key role in Iraq’s $50-billion program to produce weapons of mass destruction. The best estimates of the American government suggest that roughly 70 percent of Iraq’s nuclear, chemical, and biological capacity was provided by Germans. About all this the German government knew in detail. How could it not, since the German, British, American, Spanish, and Dutch media had been reporting the story for years? German involvement with Iraq’s chemical-weapons programs started in 1977, and three years later construction began on a “pesticide plant” at Samarra. As German engineers would later tell reporters, it was clear from the outset that this was no normal project, given the extraordinary security measures, the barbed-wire fences, and the armed guards that were in place almost as soon as the foundations were laid; in the words of one German engineer, the “pesticide” was to be used on “two-legged insects.” Recent German press reports even speak of gas chambers “for large animals” specially built for the Samarra project by German firms. The key technologies for Samarra came from four German companies: Karl Kolb and its subsidiary, Pilot Plant; Water Engineering Trading (WET) of Hamburg; and Preussag AG. Nothing changed with the German mentality. Gas, gas gas, until caught, and then it is deny, deny, deny. The export of poison gas was a German activity. The failure to intervene was a reflection of the German government. The USA did not control the German exporters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/07/23/german-firms-primed-iraqs-war-machine/09371363-d003-4a78-88ef-476c183b21dc/ How German Firms Helped Arm Iraq https://www.ippnw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PSRQV1N4Bartelt.pdf
