Originally Posted by Load Toad
I think it was Bill Hicks who said it best:
* "You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know. During the Persian Gulf war, those intelligence reports would come out: 'Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons.' How do you know that? 'Uh, well ... we looked at the receipts.'"
The Brittish government had tons of receipts for all the Migs, Mirrages, SAMs, HIPs, Hinds, AK47s, ZSUs, Roland etc it sold to the Iraqis. Or are you talking about the Hunters we sold them donkey's years ago?
We did sell Iran Rapier though, that could come back to haunt us.