Sarin is an extraordinarily lethal agent. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's forces killed 5,000 Kurds with a single sarin attack on Halabja in 1988. |
And Ronald Regan's administration fed information to Baghdad that helped them launch chemical weapons strikes, it has been revealed.
According to Foreign Policy U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein's military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a lethal nerve agent.
In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq's war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses.
It was about oil, of which entitled the holder to fight for all kind of weapons - just 25 years ago.
Now we hear different voices from the ringing-bells.
In his TV-speech, bonesman John Kerry says chemical weapons used in Syria, decries
‘indiscriminate slaughter of civilians’.
By any standard, it is inexcusable,He described such denial as morally suspect. Evidence of chemical weapons use "is undeniable,"
This is about the large-scale,
indiscriminate use of weapons the civilized world long ago decided must never be used at all.Yes, last time was attack by Hussein, see above.
Syria is defying `any code of morality´ with the `indiscriminate slaughter of civilians´, however still gave no hint of whether the United States will take action due to the apparent use of chemical weapons.
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