So, why did we sell nuke material to Iran?

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I remembered reading in a British paper about how the US armed the Nazis (Allies were ordered not to bomb GM & GE factories in Germany making German tanks) and how the US & Rumsfeld armed Saddam Hussein and the Taliban back in the 80s (all well documented).

Donald Rumsfeld was also a director of ABB which sold nuclear equipment to North Korea

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2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea
2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change


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And just as the US government was buttering up the public for a war with Iraq, part of a North Korean missile were found in Alaska, but they wanted to sweep that one under the carpet

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A recent report that a long-range missile fired from North Korea turned up in Alaska should make Americans reevaluate committing to a war with Iraq......The Bush administration is ignoring reports from South Korea and Japan that the North Koreans have test-fired a nuclear-capable, intercontinental ballistic missile, which landed in or near the state of Alaska



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I also remember reading how we sold arms to Iran, and after some brief digging, I found this BBC News story published a year after 9-11.

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British officials have approved the export of key components needed to make nuclear weapons to Iran and other countries known to be developing such weapons......The programme has also interviewed a leading nuclear weapons expert in the UK who says that the Beryllium and other items which the DTI has licensed to Iran add up to a shopping list for a nuclear weapons programme.



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So why do we keep preparing nations for war so that we can then have a war with them?

Whatever happened to The British Empire's tactics of only invading nations of 3 foot-high pigmys armed only with watermelons and receding gums?

I suppose we need a reason to invade countries (fabricated stories of WMD for example) such as a real threat of nuclear weapons produced with our assistance. The ultimate goal is maybe regime change. It's happened in many countries including Afganistan and Iraq nost recently.

I can't make sense of any of this. There must be another agenda to justify arming our enemies.