AMERICA AND NUREMBERG
I find it ironic that the US demands that Saddam Hussein be tried for war crimes while the US, who was his ally throughout the 1980s, aided and abetted Hussein in his war against Iran and his internal enemies.
The U.S. restored formal relations with Iraq in 1984, however, the U.S., from 1981-1991, supplied intelligence and military arms--biological and chemical weapons (covertly and contrary to this country's neutrality in the Iraq-Iran war) in compliance with directives from Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr.
In 1983, Iran reported Iraqi use of chemical weapons. The Geneva protocol requires that the international community retort to chemical warfare, but a diplomatically detached Iran received only a limited response to its complaints. Iran submitted a resolution asking the U.N. to condemn Iraq's chemical weapons use. The U.S. delegate to the U.N. was instructed to lobby friendly delegations in order to obtain a "no decision" on the resolution. If this was not possible, the U.S. was to abstain on the issue.
The U.S had intelligence substantiating Iraq's "almost daily" use of chemical weapons. U.S. intelligence indicated that Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian forces, and, according to a November 1983 memo, against "Kurdish insurgents" as well.
Although official U.S. policy still forbid the export of U.S. military weapons to Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war, some was provided on a "don't ask - don't tell" basis.
The U.S. as is evidently clear was complacent in Hussein's use of chemical and bilogical wepaons by first supplying the weapons and then by condoning their use. During the Nuremberg trials after World War II, the Nazi armament manufacturer, Krupp, was indicted and sentenced to 12 years for aiding the Nazi war machine. Why then is not George Bush Sr. and former Reagan and Bush, Sr staffers (incl. Rice, Rumsfeld and then Secretary of Defense Cheney) tried for supplying Hussein's regime with weapons of mass destruction? America is a hypocritical nation.
by CHRISTIAN GATSBY
