The Menace Must Be Confronted
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 31st, 2013
Good morning!
Correction: My stat on the number of lives lost in the chemical attack in Syria was incorrect. I stated that over 3oo people were killed. It has been stated that the chemical attack murdered more than 1,400 citizens, 426 of them were children. My apologies for not having the current information yesterday.
Well..probably like many of you, I was waiting to hear Obama’s statement on Syria. I listened to it and I totally support his decision.
In case you missed it, here is a segment from CNN:
President Barack Obama said that the United States “should take military action against Syrian targets” in a Rose Garden address Saturday. However, he said he would seek congressional authorization when federal lawmakers return from recess.
The president appealed for congressional leaders to consider their responsibilities and values in debating U.S. military action in Syria over its alleged chemical weapons use.”Some things are more important than partisan differences or the politics of the moment,” he said. “Today I’m asking Congress to send a message to the world that we are united as one nation.”
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Readers: It is not the entire statement but that is about all I could find right now.
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September 1st, 2013 at 8:57 am
I read Doug’s post and I am curious as to why he didn’t mention that it was Jimmy Carter that wanted to open channels with Iraq because of the 1979-81 Iran hostage situation?
September 1st, 2013 at 9:07 am
I agree with Doug. We need to take a more serious look at why the US is getting involved.
September 1st, 2013 at 9:39 am
The argument concerning who will continue to occupy Neptune should not be as contentious as recent meetings have produced. The planet is 4 times the size of earth and hence offers 4 times the available space for occupying.
I will request assistance from the TAO to resolve the issue if the next meeting reaches the present level of discontent.
September 1st, 2013 at 10:09 am
I can answer that for you Thomas. The United States under Reagan actively supported the Iraqi war effort by supplying the Iraqis with billions of dollars of credits, by providing U.S. military intelligence and advice to the Iraqis, and by closely monitoring third country arms sales to Iraq to make sure that Iraq had the military weaponry required.
Reagan actually was a puppet of Bush who had just left heading up the CIA and was still its titular head and was not in any mood to take orders from an actor who never saw a dollar he wouldn’t sell out for.
The United States under Bush provided strategic operational advice to the Iraqis to better use their assets in combat… The CIA, including both CIA Director Casey and Deputy Director Gates, knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, ammunition and vehicles to Iraq.
My notes, memoranda and other documents in my NSC files show or tend to show that the CIA knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, munitions and vehicles to Iraq.
Chemical weapons were provided to Iraq. Most of those left over went to Syria during the first and second Bushes attack upon Iraq. Neither Bush had the foresight to guard the weaponry that was open to any who wanted them because of the destruction of the Iraq military guards by America.
No doubt Doug hit it squarely on the head when he said American tags would be all over those chemical weapons.
September 1st, 2013 at 10:20 am
Doug has opened up a can of nuclear and chemical bombs as well as the fact that At times, thanks to the the Reagan/BushWhite House secret backing for the intelligence-sharing with Iraq, U.S. intelligence officers were actually sent to Baghdad to help interpret the satellite information.
As the White House took an increasingly active role in secretly helping Saddam direct his armed forces, the United States even built an expensive high-tech annex in Baghdad to provide a direct down-link receiver for the satellite intelligence and better processing of the information.
Under those two idiots the American military commitment that had begun with intelligence-sharing expanded rapidly and surreptitiously throughout the Iran–Iraq War. By 1987, Bush was actually providing tactical military advice to the Iraqis in the battlefield, and sometimes they would find themselves over the Iranian border, alongside Iraqi troops.
September 1st, 2013 at 10:22 am
Doug is dead right. Donald Rumsfeld met Saddām on 19–20 December 1983. Rumsfeld visited again on 24 March 1984, the day the UN reported that Iraq had used mustard gas and tabun nerve agent against Iranian troops.
Who do you think provided the chemicals and technology?
The NY Times reported from Baghdad on 29 March 1984, that “American diplomats pronounce themselves satisfied with Iraq and the U.S., and suggest that normal diplomatic ties have been established in all but name.
September 1st, 2013 at 10:34 am
Thank you Doug for opening up this dialogue concerning the involvement of the US in spreading chemical weapons to the Middle east.
The U.S. military was so invested in the correct outcome of the Iran/Iraq War, that “officers from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency dispatched to Baghdad were actually planning day-by-day strategic bombing strikes for the Iraqi Air Force. Iraq used this data to target Iranian positions with chemical weapons and those weapons were provided by America.
The MK-84: Saudi Arabia transferred to Iraq hundreds of U.S.-made general-purpose “dumb bombs”.
Army Colonel W. Patrick Lang, who was the senior defense intelligence officer for the United States Defense Intelligence Agency at the time, was ordered by Reagan to assist the Iraqis concerning when and where to employ the chemical weapons effectively.
The use of gas on the battlefield by the Iraqis was not a matter of deep strategic concern” to Reagan and his aides, because they “were desperate to make sure that Iraq did not lose. Under Lang more than 60 officers of the Defense Intelligence Agency were secretly providing detailed information on Iranian deployments.
Reagan and VP Bush were okay with the use of chemical weapons against civilians, or military objectives because they were committed to any thing as long as it insured that Iraq would win the war.
September 1st, 2013 at 10:38 am
I am a Kurd and I can affirm that Reagan was a devil. He knew that Saddam had used some of the chemical weapons he gave him to kill thousands of my people. Reagan continued supplying Saddam with even more lethal chemical weapons after receiving reports affirming the use of poison gas on Kurdish civilians.when the Iraqi military turned its chemical weapons on the Kurds during the war, killing approximately 5,000 people in the town of Halabja and injuring thousands more, the Reagan administration actually sought to obscure Iraqi leadership culpability by suggesting, inaccurately, that the Iranians may have carried out the attack.[24]
September 1st, 2013 at 10:49 am
If I were you Thomas#1, I wouldn’t be so quick to accuse Doug of any thing. The record clearly shows that the Iraqi military personnel received various types of guidance from their American counterparts on U.S. soil.
Saddam’s elite troops received instruction in unconventional warfare at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The idea was that, in the event of an Iranian victory, the Iraqi soldiers would be able to wage a guerrilla struggle against the occupying Iranian force.
The Green Berets provided them with counter insurgency training, because the US was afraid that if Iran overwhelmed Saddam’s army, that the units might have to go underground and operate underground, and so they received training in being able to operate as guerillas.
Iraqi helicopter pilots, traveling on Jordanian passports, are reported to have received training in the United States.
September 1st, 2013 at 10:57 am
I know one of the Iraqi pilots that mistakenly attacked the USS Stark in 1987. That attack killed 37 us service men and injured at least 21 others. He got political asylum in the US for it.
Doug you don’t know the half of the things Reagan did. He was truly evil. He set into motion events that destroyed the black communities so he could finance his secret wars.
I was a part of that and to this day I have nightmare about what I was apart of. Truly the only country other that Israel during the Six-Day War that has gotten away with attacking a US warship is Iraq.
September 1st, 2013 at 11:03 am
Thank you, Thank you Doug for revealing this to the american people.
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“During the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam used 101,000 chemical munitions, which was no secret. The U.S. once in a while would peep and say chemical weapons were bad, but at the same time we were giving Saddam intelligence that laid out where Iranian troops were massing.
Then he would gas the living daylights out of them. If you’re Saddam, you wonder: How is it that between August 1990 and April 1991 the U.S. became so interested in weapons of mass destruction?”
Charles Duelfer
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Most assuredly those chemical weapons came from America. If Obama doesn’t do something, the Middle East will learn what America has caused with their proliferation and secret sales of Chemical Weapons. We will most assuredly attempt to bring that terror back to their shores.
Gereshk
September 1st, 2013 at 11:10 am
Doug, you may be a better example of a whistle blower than Snowden. How sick is it to discover that Bush and Donald Rumsfeld knew that Saddam had the capability of making Weapons of Mass Destruction because Rumsfeld under the other Bush and Reagan was the one who provided Saddam with the “duel use” technology to get it done?
Better watch your back Doug. I don’t think the republican criminals will take too kindly to your exposing their closet of despicable deeds.
Hey, for what its worth. You’re my hero.
September 1st, 2013 at 11:11 am
Damn, when I read what you wrote Doug. All I could say was WTF?