enthalpy

Friday, December 19, 2003


I can't believe this happened in 1983 and we're just now hearing about it. I poached this picture from CNN last spring, and I'm quite amazed it's still there, but with all the new Rumsfeld/Hussein stuff surfacing, they may try to get some more mileage out of it. (It's much better than the one on the Washington Post's site.)

Here's the angle that I can't imagine isn't getting more attention:
Privately, however, the administrations of Reagan and George H.W. Bush sold military goods to Iraq, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological agents, worked to stop the flow of weapons to Iran, and undertook discreet diplomatic initiatives, such as the two Rumsfeld trips to Baghdad, to improve relations with Hussein.
Didn't you kinda wonder why Rummy, Bush, and even Powell were just flat out convinced that Saddam had WMD? Well here's why: We freakin' sold it to him! All they had to do is check the receipt, and wait for the check to clear. But it's statements like this one that really makes me want to puke:
"Iraqi officials have professed to be at a loss to explain our actions as measured against our stated objectives," he wrote.
Yeah, I guess the highly nuanced "wink, wink" was lost in the translation.

"Don't use the chemical weapons {wink, wink} against Iran.



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