Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:18:04PM +0000, Jim Dixon wrote:

Relevant numbers from the Times today, quoting Air Force Monthly, January 2003: from 1980 to 1990 Iraq imported 28.9 billion pounds worth of weapons. 19% by value were from France; 57% from the Soviet Union (ie Russia), East Germany, and Czechoslovakia; 8% from China. Sales from the United States were inconsequential and did not make the list. From earlier articles in other publications I believe that in fact US sales were a small fraction of 1%.

I smell statistical acrobatics by the USAF... Do we really measure weapons in pounds? I'd rather see a listing of weapons imports from JUST the period of the Iran-Iraq war than a listing of weapons imports from 1980-1990.