When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. -- Thomas Jefferson
It seems that the Iranian judiciary has been getting its precedents from the Loony Left, for finding that the US is responsible for Saddam’s use of chemical weapons during their spastic border wars two decades ago “because we supplied them”. Their ruling has determined that the US is liable for the $600 million judgment.
Let’s get it clear - one more time. We didn’t supply him with chemical weapons. Period.
But an interesting contradiction from the left (surprise, surprise) shows its head with the conclusions arising from this story…
We sent baseline strains of some fairly nasty stuff, including anthrax, to Iraq, to be used the same way our universities and hospitals would use them - to create vaccines and cures.
There was a chemical company that sold pesticides to Iraq to assist in agricultural endeavors. (Dow Chemicals, IIRC.)
To those on the left, these dual-use supplies and example strains of some diseases, sold more than two decades ago, are “weapons of mass destruction”.
But when we point to similar materials that are even more deadly, and to the evidence of things we never supplied, they aren’t WMD anymore, they’re “innocent supplies”. Such as the pesticides that were found buried in Karbala…
At Karbala, U.S. troops stumbled upon 55-gallon drums of pesticides at what appeared to be a very large “agricultural supply” area, Hanson says. Some of the drums were stored in a “camouflaged bunker complex” that was shown to reporters—with unpleasant results.
”More than a dozen soldiers, a Knight-Ridder reporter, a CNN cameraman, and two Iraqi POWs came down with symptoms consistent with exposure to a nerve agent,” Hanson says. “But later ISG tests resulted in a proclamation of negative, end of story, nothing to see here, etc., and the earlier findings and injuries dissolved into nonexistence. Left unexplained is the small matter of the obvious pains taken to disguise the cache of ostensibly legitimate pesticides. One wonders about the advantage an agricultural-commodities business gains by securing drums of pesticide in camouflaged bunkers 6 feet underground. The ‘agricultural site’ was also colocated with a military ammunition dump—evidently nothing more than a coincidence in the eyes of the ISG.”
That’s just from being in the same room…
So are they WMD or not?
Another quote:
Again, this January, Danish forces found 120-millimeter mortar shells filled with a mysterious liquid that initially tested positive for blister agents. But subsequent tests by the United States disputed that finding.
“If it wasn’t a chemical agent, what was it?” Hanson asks. “More pesticides? Dish-washing detergent? From this old soldier’s perspective, I gain nothing from putting a liquid in my mortar rounds unless that stuff will do bad things to the enemy.”
Spread the word, folks. This story needs to be published, and the White House is lying down on the job…
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That new hero of Europe, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has completed the pull-out of Spanish troops from Iraq.
But on April 18, Zapatero’s second day in office, he ordered Spain’s 1,400 troops to return home as soon as possible, saying that after consulting world leaders he believed there was no chance Spain’s conditions would be met.
I’m glad you’re gone Spain, since you reinforce the idea of the limp-wristed, meek-minded, molly-coddled Faux Europa dream of cozying up to terrorists and giving into them. You have failed.
