The U.S. aided Hussein in perpetrating chemical attacks on Iranians in the '80s.

[cali]

The United States provided Iraq with intelligence on preparations for an Iranian offensive during the Iran-Iraq war even though it knew Baghdad would respond with chemical weapons, Foreign Policy magazine reported Monday.

Citing declassified CIA documents and interviews with former officials, the magazine reviewed the US record as Washington weighs military action against Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons near Damascus last week.

The magazine said the US knew in 1983 that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein would not hesitate to resort to shelling Iranian forces with sarin or mustard gas.

"As Iraqi attacks continue and intensify the chances increase that Iranian forces will acquire a shell containing mustard agent with Iraqi markings," a top secret CIA report said in November 1983.

"Tehran would take such evidence to the UN and charge US complicity in violating international law," the agency warned.

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http://www.france24.com/en/20130826-us-gave-iraq-intel-1980s-ignored-chemical-attacks-report

[Drale]

1. The CIA has always had that "The ends justify the means" mentality

its a horrible outlook to have but that's what you get when you have an "intelligence" agency filled with paranoid morons that think the only reason we lost Vietnam we because of Jane Fonda and those damn Hippies.

[brooklynite]

2. And the relevance of this story is...what?

Are you suggesting that the Obama Administration has also aided in the use of Chemical Weapons?

Or that, because a Republican Administration did so, A Democratic Administration can't oppose their use?

[cali]

3. no, i'm not suggesting anything of the kind

beyond that the U.S. has a history of being righteous about things when our history is pretty deplorable though the hands of Obama and the admin are bloody with the deaths of civilians too.

Do educate yourself on the documented use of signature strikes and double tapping.