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American companies provided Iraq with chemicals and biological agents as well in the past, should those companies be prohibited from profiting from the reconstruction as well?
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The US accounted for something like 1% of the weapons (all weapons) sold to Iraq after 1978. Germany and France accounted for over 25%. France also attempted to help Iraq build a nuclear reactor that could have produced weapons (France seems very pro nuclear proliferation, don't really know why).
Germany was much more heavily involved in supplying Iraq with chemical weapons then the US was. Depending on what you count as "supplying" there were somewhere between 4x and 7x as many German companies supplying Iraq then there were US companies.
This is the list of US comapnes that appeared in the Iraqi Declaration.
Legend used in this list:
A = nuclear program, (Due to the nature of nuclear weaons research this can include a lot of stuff)
B = bioweapons program,
C = chemical weapons program,
R = rocket program,
K = conventional weapons, military logistics, supplies at the Iraqi Defense Ministry and the building of military plants.
1 Honeywell (R, K)
2 Spectra Physics (K)
3 Semetex (R)
4 TI Coating (A, K)
5 Unisys (A, K)
6 Sperry Corp. (R, K)
7 Tektronix (R, A)
8 Rockwell (K)
9 Leybold Vacuum Systems (A)
10 Finnigan-MAT-US (A)
11 Hewlett-Packard (A, R, K)
12 Dupont (A)
13 Eastman Kodak (R)
14 American Type Culture Collection (B)
15 Alcolac International (C)
16 Consarc (A)
17 Carl Zeiss - U.S (K)
18 Cerberus (LTD) (A)
19 Electronic Associates (R)
20 International Computer Systems (A, R, K)
21 Bechtel (K)
22 EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc. (R)
23 Canberra Industries Inc. (A)
24 Axel Electronics Inc. (A)