re: #54 goddamnedfrank

Except that GWB & Company were sitting on documents proving that Saddam’s past use of chemical weapons had been done not only with our approval, but with our targeting assistance.

Any way you slice it, the Bush administration’s argument was not only massively hypocritical, but they lied by omission to make it. Proof of our overt involvement in Saddam’s past use of chemical weapons would have had a huge impact on the public debate going into the 2003 invasion, and that’s why it was kept secret.

The US really shouldn’t be bleating now about use of chemical weapons as somehow categorically crossing a red line.

This red line is obviously mythical.