News of Russia’s proposal to help eliminate Syria’s chemical
weapons naturally brings out American suspicions about how genuine Russia’s
efforts are. After all, the argument goes, hasn’t Russia been a supplier ofweapons to Syria for years? How can we trust their intentions?
The problem with that argument is that it assumes that a
country must have a pure heart and clean hands in order to contribute to a
diplomatic effort. If that were so, then the United States would hardly be in a
good position to be lecturing Syria and Russia about their attitudes towards
chemical weapons. After all, as recently released records, the United States
played a significant role in enabling the last great user of chemical weapons
in the Middle East, Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Check out the complete report, but
here is a portion of a story in the WashingtonPost:
Foreign
Policy published a disturbing article over the weekend about U.S.
complicity in Iraq’s use of chemical weapons against Iran in the 1980s.
Recently declassified CIA documents uncovered by the magazine and interviews
with experts reveal that not only did the U.S. government know that Iraq was
using chemical weapons in the conflict earlier than disclosed, it gave
satellite intelligence to Iraqi forces that helped them plan future chemical
weapon offenses:
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 [Saddam]
Hussein’s military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a
lethal nerve agent.
The intelligence included imagery and maps about Iranian troop
movements, as well as the locations of Iranian logistics facilities and details
about Iranian air defenses. The Iraqis used mustard gas and sarin prior to four
major offensives in early 1988 that relied on U.S. satellite imagery, maps, and
other intelligence.
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