While condemning Syria for its use of chemical weapons (and rightly so) our country and it's leaders have managed to overlook or not speak about the atrocities it has conducted against its own citizens.
We have quite the record.
Our citizens have been guinea pigs for experiments with radiation, cancer cells, malaria, yellow fever, poisoned drinking water, nerve gas, mustard gas, hallucinogens and, I feel confident that there are others that haven't been acknowledged.
We have been responsible for horrible "tests."
In the 40's, the Navy locked people in a gas chamber and exposed them to mustard gas.
In the 50's, the US military released clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide over several US and Canadian cities while the CIA experimented with biological agents by releasing bacteria over Tampa Bay.
In the 60's, to test the toxicological effect of certain drugs the CIA dispensed biological agents into the NY subway system. More than one million people were exposed.
Let me stop here and ask a question. Should our country have been bombed to stop us for these "experiments?" How would we have reacted if; for example, Russia had stated our capabilities to poison and kill our own citizens must be degraded and prevented? Would bombing have stopped us from continuing some of these practices in the 70's, 80's and 90's?
Just something to think about Mr. President.
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