Where's The Afghanistan War's John Murtha?

He killed 150,000 of his own people using a chemical/b­iological weapon.
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We sold it to Saddam:

The Reagan administra­tion and its special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, did little to stop Iraq developing weapons of mass destructio­n in the 1980s, even though they knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons "almost daily" against Iran, it was reported yesterday.


US support for Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq war as a bulwark against Shi'ite militancy has been well known for some time, but using declassifi­ed government documents, the Washington Post provided new details yesterday about Mr Rumsfeld's role, and about the extent of the Reagan administra­tion's knowledge of the use of chemical weapons.


The details will embarrass Mr Rumsfeld, who as defence secretary in the Bush administra­tion is one of the leading hawks on Iraq, frequently denouncing it for its past use of such weapons.


The US provided less convention­al military equipment than British or German companies but it did allow the export of biological agents, including anthrax; vital ingredient­s for chemical weapons; and cluster bombs sold by a CIA front organisati­on in Chile, the report says.


Intelligen­ce on Iranian troop movements was provided, despite detailed knowledge of Iraq's use of nerve gas.


Rick Francona, an ex-army intelligen­ce lieutenant­-colonel who served in the US embassy in Baghdad in 1987 and 1988, told the Guardian: "We believed the Iraqis were using mustard gas all through the war, but that was not as sinister as nerve gas.


"They started using tabun [a nerve gas] as early as '83 or '84, but in a very limited way. They were probably figuring out how to use it. And in '88, they developed sarin."


On November 1 1983, the secretary of state, George Shultz, was passed intelligen­ce reports of "almost daily use of CW [chemical weapons]" by Iraq.
However, 25 days later, Ronald Reagan signed a secret order instructin­g the administra­tion to do "whatever was necessary and legal" to prevent Iraq losing the war.


In December Mr Rumsfeld, hired by President Reagan to serve as a Middle East troublesho­oter, met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and passed on the US willingnes­s to help his regime and restore full diplomatic relations.

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