and I cannot help but think that we justify our doing things for which we condemn others.
From Foreign Policy: Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
I am not going to attempt to parse this.
You can read it on your own.
I will do only this much, offering these two snips:
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. 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.
U.S. officials have long denied acquiescing to Iraqi chemical attacks, insisting that Hussein's government never announced he was going to use the weapons. But retired Air Force Col. Rick Francona, who was a military attaché in Baghdad during the 1988 strikes, paints a different picture.
"The Iraqis never told us that they intended to use nerve gas. They didn't have to. We already knew," he told Foreign Policy.
This week I again take on the task of teaching young people about Government. I will also be teaching them about STEM in the context of Policy, ethics, and media.
Somehow, sometime this year, I will have to address issues like this.
For if we do not raise them with our young people, will we ever hold ourselves to the standard we insist upon for others?