Then, Saddam Hussein, with whom U.S. officials had partnered during the 1980s, came to the rescue with his invasion of Kuwait, providing Pentagon officials a new mission that would extend throughout the 1990s — to deal with the massive WMD threat that Saddam supposedly posed to the United States, especially with the WMDs that the United States had furnished him in the 1980s.
He certainly seems to think the US provided Sadaam with WMD. The only information I have seen is that the US (and other Western countries) provided Sadaam with dual use chemicals, and Anthrax spores for research and livestock vaccines. Somehow he has it in his mind that it is solely America's fault he had WMD.
Whether or not the officials that approved the sale of those dual use chemicals knew that Iraq was going to use them for weapons is something I don't think they knew because the US stopped all sales of dual use chemicals once it became clear what Sadaam's intentions were concerning WMD's.
