User:CJK/Iraq

Iraq's suppliers
The U.S. did indeed support Iraq in the 1980s, but not to the extent that one would be led to believe. Here are the relevant statistics:

Conventional weapons
Top 11 nations ranked by volume of major conventional weapons exports to Iraq, 1980-1988 (1990 prices, in millions of USD). Source:


 * Soviet Union:    $15902,  49.6%
 * China:           $ 5169,  16.1%
 * France:          $ 4827,  15.1%
 * Czechoslovakia:  $ 1495,   4.6%
 * Poland:          $ 1408,   4.4%
 * Brazil:          $  698,   2.2%
 * Egypt:           $  521,   1.6%
 * Romania:         $  514,   1.6%
 * Denmark:         $  226,   0.7%
 * Libya:           $  200,   0.6%
 * United States: $ 200,   0.6%
 * Others:              $  887,   2.9%

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 * Total:                  $32047, 100.0%

Chemical weapons precursors
Nations ranked in order of chemical weapons precursors exported to Iraq (to 1990), figures in tons (source: ):


 * Singapore:        4515, 25.7%
 * Netherlands:      4261, 24.2%
 * Egypt:            2400, 13.6%
 * India:            2343, 13.3%
 * Germany:          1027,  5.8%
 * Luxembourg:        650,  3.7%
 * United States: >300, 1.7-2.3%
 * Brazil             100,  0.6
 * Others                1906-2006, 11.4 or 10.8%

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 * Total:               17602, 100%

Missile/Nuclear
It is difficult to assess this in rank, but the Wisconsin Project has a “Share of Responsibility” Pie Chart. Here are the ranks showing # of deals and rank (source: ):


 * Germany:        102, 50%
 * Switzerland:     22,  8%
 * Italy:           13,  5%
 * France:           6,  5%
 * Brazil           14,  4%
 * United Kingdom:  20, 3.5%
 * United States: 25, 3.5%
 * Other:               38, 21%

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 * Total:                240, 100%

Credits
I have a source for Iraq’s 2004 debt but I don’t know how much credit, if any, were given to post-Gulf War Iraq. Here’s the ranking, though. Figures are in millions (source:,, ):


 * Saudi Arabia:    $ 30850, 28.5%
 * Japan:           $  8229,  7.6%
 * Kuwait:         $  8180,  7.6%
 * UAE:             $  8000,   7.4%
 * Russia:          $  6900,   6.4%
 * France:          $  6402,   5.9%
 * China:           $  5800,  5.4%
 * United States: $ 4408,    4.1%
 * Italy:           $  3537,  3.3%
 * Romania:        $  2507,  2.3%
 * United Kingdom:  $  1865,  1.7%
 * Other:               $ 21526, 19.8%


 * Total:                 $108204, 100%

Even if we only take into account Iraq's $35 billion debt to Westerners after the Iran-Iraq War, U.S. % would be 12.6%. Taking into account an additional $30 billion minimum credited from the Gulf during that time, U.S. % would be only 6.8%.

Iraq 1991-2003
UNSCOM official site UNMOVIC

UNSCR 687

ISG report

Intelligence Failure