posted on August 18, 2002 02:50:12 PM new
It is being reported today that the Reagan administration supported Iraq's development of biochemical weapons during its war with Iran. A bit short-sighted to say the least.
[ edited by stusi on Aug 18, 2002 02:55 PM ]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — A covert American program during the Reagan administration provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence agencies knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war, according to senior military officers with direct knowledge of the program.
Those officers, most of whom agreed to speak on the condition that they not be identified, spoke in response to a reporter's questions about the nature of gas warfare on both sides of the conflict between Iran and Iraq from 1981 to 1988. Iraq's use of gas in that conflict is repeatedly cited by President Bush and, this week, by his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, as justification for "regime change" in Iraq.
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Global terrorists do not all originate in the mideast. I was just reading an article by Noam Chomsky in which he pointed out Reagan's denunciation of the "evil scourge of terrorism" in 1985. While he was denouncing terrorism, the US was supporting it.
