Chemical Hypocrisy: U.S. Aided Iraqi Nerve Attacks Decades Before Outrage At Syria Attack | Alternet
Remember the days of the droning words, "... gassed his own people"? Now, the same US is planning to go against a Middle Eastern leader that it, along with Israel, has long wanted to be rid of. Yes, this is hypocritical for the United States because this country has and still does protect dictators, debauched leaders, and criminals from all over the world to further promote and protect "America's interests" (both economic and political). The weapons used were American weapons, whether chemical or conventional weapons of warfare. Case in point: "... it’s not Syria in 2013--it’s Iraq in the 1980s, and the U.S. was complicit in the attacks. In sharp contrast to U.S. outrage over the chemical weapons attack that Syrian government forces allegedly launched last week in a Damascus suburb, the U.S. aided Iraqi forces who used chemical weapons attacks during the brutal Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s (para. 2).
Unrighteous indignation is not pretty no matter whose face is on the portrait being viewed. In order not to thing things began yesterday or last night, J. Turley shows that it didn't: http://jonathanturley.org/2013/08/26/report-u-s-knew-of-saddam-husseins-use-of-chemical-weapons-and-supplied-intelligence-used-in-attack/.
Remember the days of the droning words, "... gassed his own people"? Now, the same US is planning to go against a Middle Eastern leader that it, along with Israel, has long wanted to be rid of. Yes, this is hypocritical for the United States because this country has and still does protect dictators, debauched leaders, and criminals from all over the world to further promote and protect "America's interests" (both economic and political). The weapons used were American weapons, whether chemical or conventional weapons of warfare. Case in point: "... it’s not Syria in 2013--it’s Iraq in the 1980s, and the U.S. was complicit in the attacks. In sharp contrast to U.S. outrage over the chemical weapons attack that Syrian government forces allegedly launched last week in a Damascus suburb, the U.S. aided Iraqi forces who used chemical weapons attacks during the brutal Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s (para. 2).
Unrighteous indignation is not pretty no matter whose face is on the portrait being viewed. In order not to thing things began yesterday or last night, J. Turley shows that it didn't: http://jonathanturley.org/2013/08/26/report-u-s-knew-of-saddam-husseins-use-of-chemical-weapons-and-supplied-intelligence-used-in-attack/.
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