You are so fixated in bombrding this space with disinformation and copying from unsubstantiated inaccurate sources that you ignored the very specific details that I provided. Read this and then come back and try and blame everyone else again. 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. Alright so I didn't specifically write that the German involvement in helping Iraq create chemical weapons and move towards a nuclear weapons program was well known in European capitals and no secret. I used the common reference of EU to refer to Europe. Me bad. Happy now? It does not change the fact that no European government intervened. Although the MEP did not have legislative powers at the time, the European Parliament existed in part to address matters of common concern like this. Germany had signed on to the Geneva Agreement of 1925 prohibiting the use of chemical weapons. In the 1960's Germany wanted to create a stockpile of chemical weapons. It made its intention known to NATO European members. Germany was told at the time not to do it, so it is not as if the German government was unaware of international concerns. https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-cold-war-chemical-weapons-military-planned-to-stockpile-arsenal-in-1960s/a-43609555 The fact remains that it was a German built manufacturing facility that manufactured the chemical munitions. It is also an undeniable fact that 70%+ of all equipment and supplies were German origin.
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