Friday, May 7, 2004
Iranian Gas Attack Victims Vow to Take U.S. to Court
I'll paraphrase the great comedian Lewis Black here:
"How many whiskey sours would you have to be down to be sitting in a bar next to Saddam Hussein and say 'Oooh, you're a snuggy bear, we're gonna get you some nerve gas.'?"
Conservatives will instictively spout lines about Saddam "gassing his own people" when they lose their place justifying the war in Iraq, but as usual, context means nothing to them.
They never mention that Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Sr., and Donald Rumsfeld brokered the deal that got Saddam those chemical weapons. You'll never hear the current President Bush mention this when he inevitably spins himself into a corner at a press conference.
You'll also never hear that a bi-partisan action of Congress (co-sponsored by Jesse Helms and Al Gore) would have imposed sanctions on Hussein for using chemical weapons. You also won't hear that President Reagan VETOED this action.
So now, Iranian survivors of these gas attacks want to take legal action against the U.S. for supplying a nutjob with chemical weapons. Can't blame them really...
If I had a crazy neighbor and a friend of his/hers gave him/her a flamethrower which said crazy neighbor then used to burn down my house, I assume I'd be pretty pissed if I managed to make it out alive...
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