Secretary of State John Kerry Announces Chemical Weapons Unacceptable on SAME DAY That It's Revealed America Helped Saddam Use C

Secretary of State John Kerry Announces Chemical Weapons Unacceptable on SAME DAY That It’s Revealed America Helped Saddam Use C

War, War, War. We must have another ME war.

US News • August 2013 • Views: 1,227

On the same day that Secretary of State John Kerry announces that we have to bomb Syria because the use of chemical weapons violate international rules, it was revealed that CIA files prove that the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons against Iran.

The irony is stunning …

The U.S. literally defines terrorism as other people doing what we ourselves do.

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9 comments

Randall Gross Tue, Aug 27, 2013 2:07:18pm

That blog you link to at the bottom is just a recursive link back to the FP story, a quick glance at the sidebar shows Lew Rockwell, Drudge, Infowars, 911 Troofers, the guardian and Glen Greenwald all there.

My BS detector is screaming “ANOTHER DUDEBROS OP!” at full volume.

steve_davis Tue, Aug 27, 2013 2:49:18pm

Actually, I’m pretty sure this has been common knowledge for the past 30 years. We were letting Saddam use our satellite maps to see Iranian concentrations. Egypt in 1973 was getting satellite imagery courtesy of the Russians. Shit happens.

Skip Intro Tue, Aug 27, 2013 5:01:39pm

re: #1 Randall Gross

That blog you link to at the bottom is just a recursive link back to the FP story, a quick glance at the sidebar shows Lew Rockwell, Drudge, Infowars, 911 Troofers, the guardian and Glen Greenwald all there.

My BS detector is screaming “ANOTHER DUDEBROS OP!” at full volume.

I should have just linked to the FP article directly. The blog may have links to the wingnutosphere, but I think FP is still respectable.

mr.JA Wed, Aug 28, 2013 1:14:24am

On page 4 of that article are the direct declassified documents, here if you like: foreignpolicy.com

I don’t think that the US has anything to do in Syria - besides, call me completely rational, but why is killing a few hundred people (max.) with nerve gas so much worse than bombing neighborhoods with cluster-bombs, killing an order of magnitude more people? And it isn’t even very clear who is responsible for this…

This war is again going to be very expensive, and will mean that the US is again the police man of the middle east - let them sort it out themselves, ‘we’ (as ‘the west’, me being from Europe) have nothing to do there. The situation is very complicated with everyone being enemy with everyone - just do not get in there.
The 1953 coup (staged by the UK and US) in Iran has caused the complete loss of democracy in Iran, giving weapons to the Muhjadeen in Afghanistan to fight the Russians wasn’t a smart idea, like supporting Iraq in their war with Iran. If you look at the role the West (with the US leading) played in the middle-East, you can only facepalm and shake you head in disbelief. Although Ron Paul is a crook on many, many points, I completely agree with him on the US’s middle-East strategy. Again, this war is going on now for 2 years, with 100,000 deaths. Now a few hundred dead by poison gas is suddenly a reason for intervention, while bombing neighborhoods, killing thouasands wasn’t? I would be able to explain that to anyone…

Jayleia Wed, Aug 28, 2013 5:22:51am

Yeah, I’d agree that it feels like the DUDEBROening.

Do you think that this guy and this guy are the same people?

calochortus Wed, Aug 28, 2013 8:03:13am

re: #2 steve_davis

Actually, I’m pretty sure this has been common knowledge for the past 30 years. We were letting Saddam use our satellite maps to see Iranian concentrations. Egypt in 1973 was getting satellite imagery courtesy of the Russians. Shit happens.

Yeah, I recall a fair bit of discussion about that before the second Iraq war, if not before.

Political Atheist Thu, Aug 29, 2013 2:55:18pm

Remember the french opposed the Iraq war?
This time they seem to have less doubt, although they want to wait for the UN report.

jonhendry Fri, Aug 30, 2013 12:13:30am

re: #1 Randall Gross

That “Washington” guy is definitely a conspiracy nut. I used to read the left-of-center economics and finance-oriented Naked Capitalism blog, but the proprietor Yves Smith lets that Washington guy post there too. I just got tired of the conspiracy nonsense. Eventually Yves started getting like that as well.

I would suggest just ignoring him and linking straight to the source.

jonhendry Fri, Aug 30, 2013 12:37:08am

re: #6 calochortus

In December of 2002, Iraq provided a 12,000 page declaration of the state of its WMD programs to the UNMOVIC inspectors. It pretty much said there were none, and that turned out to be the truth.

The US decided that instead of allowing the UN to be the custodian of the documents, the US should be in charge, and made copies of the documents and provided them to the permanent members of the UN Security Council.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the US removed anything relevant to our involvement with Iraq’s wmd programs, before making the documents available to others.

news.bbc.co.uk

Despite an initial agreement that Iraq’s 12,000-page weapons dossier would remain in possession of the UN, the US on Sunday reached an agreement with the head of the Security Council to copy and distribute the document itself.

Reports say several other members of the Council are upset at the extent to which the US took charge of handing out copies to the permanent members and editing the versions to be given to the rotating members, who are not nuclear powers.

The US justified its action on security grounds.

The BBC’s Justin Webb reports from Washington that the move amounts to a mini-coup by the US following the document’s arrival in New York on Sunday night.

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