NP Bush dynasty hypocrisy

[Doug Millison]

"A covert American program during the Reagan
administration provided Iraq with critical battle
planning assistance at a time when American
intelligence agencies knew that Iraqi commanders would
employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles
of the Iran-Iraq war, according to senior military
officers with direct knowledge of the program.
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Those officers, most of whom agreed to speak on the
condition that they not be identified, spoke in
response to a reporter's questions about the nature of
gas warfare on both sides of the conflict between Iran
and Iraq from 1981 to 1988. Iraq's use of gas in that
conflict is repeatedly cited by President Bush and,
this week, by his national security adviser,
Condoleezza Rice, as justification for "regime change"
in Iraq.

The covert program was carried out at a time when
President Reagan's top aides, including Secretary of
State George P. Shultz, Defense Secretary Frank C.
Carlucci and Gen. Colin L. Powell, then the national
security adviser, were publicly condemning Iraq for
its use of poison gas, especially after Iraq attacked
Kurds in Halabja in March 1988. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/international/middleeast/18CHEM.html?ex=1030248000&en=b0ae2fbb743e693d&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1

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