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Originally posted by cyberxxx
Do you remember the gas that Saddam used against Kurds? I tell you some secret man. That gas was produced in the States. So please don't try to look competent it you know nothing about this...
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The U.S. provided financial aid, military intelligence, and actual military planning to Iraq at a time when the Reagan administration was well aware that Iraq was using chemical weapons against Iran. One anonymous inside source told the New York Times that the Pentagon ?wasn't so horrified by Iraq's use of gas. It was just another way of killing people ? whether with a bullet or phosgene, it didn't make any difference.?
The facts surrounding U.S. covert support for Iraq and its awareness that Iraq had been using chemical warfare against the Iranians, and perhaps the Kurds, offers serious implications to the current Bush administration's argument for 'regime change' in Iraq. One of the main premises of the administration's argument is that Saddam Hussein must be removed from power because he is 'evil' - referring of course to the allegation that Saddam Hussein 'gassed his own people.'
USA knew it all along, but never acted, only after many years later, when Bush had to finish some business