Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas

The New York Times ^ | 8/17/02 (for editions of 8/18/02) | Patrick E. Tyler

[okie01]

"I seem to recall statements from the administration at the time that this was one of those situations where both sides deserved to lose...."

An altogether intelligent assessment of the two sides.

The Times, however, will unerringly pick whichever side is opposing the side favored by the Reagan & Bush administrations.

If Reagan had been president during WW II, they'd have been promoting Hitler and Tojo...

[sailor4321]

I imagine the Times effectively did promote Hitler during the Berlin-Moscow pact days.....

[sailor4321]

Related post at http://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/news/734877/posts

[Grut]

Anybody unwilling to [give] his name...is gutless

Maybe, maybe not. The question, though, is is he truthful? As Watergate showed us, anonymous sources are not always false and named sources are not always true.

[mlocher]

Which leads me to believe that the New York Times must have favored the ayatollahs over the hostages...

actually, it lead me to believe that the new york times must have favoured teh ayatollahs over the people who worked in the wtc.

[rightwing2]

Isn't it interesting that we find out that Reagan and Bush Sr. provided arms to Saddam Hussein, who Bush Sr. later purposefully mischaracterized as another Adolf Hitler, along with about $2 billion in modern arms to terrorist Iran and hundreds of millions more in modern arms to Communist China in his badly misnamed "Peace Pearl" program? Oh yeah and I forgot Reagan's support for Bin Laden and a bunch of other extremist anti-American Islamicist terrrorists in Afghanistan. Now, a less conservative President has come along named George Dubya who wants to launch the US into an unprovoked war with Iraq to further bolster his poll numbers. It will be nice when we finally elect a President who has the strategic and moral vision to know who to support and who to oppose as well as when war is justified and when it is not. George Dubya has proven with his latest plan to invade Iraq that he is not that man.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

"I did agree that Iraq should not lose the war, but I certainly had no foreknowledge of their use of chemical weapons."

Maybe. But AFTER they DID use chemical weapons against the Kurds in 1988, we continued to do business with them and supply them with aid, right up until they invaded Kuwait. This foreign policy, in my opinion, nullifies the claim that "We must go invade Iraq....after all THEY GASSED THEIR OWN PEOPLE!!"

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

Almost forgot....

LanaTurnerOverdrive signed up on 2002-07-02

[okie01]

"I imagine the Times effectively did promote Hitler during the Berlin-Moscow pact days....."

I suspect you are correct.