It doesnt get any more ironic than this re: Iraq

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This is a direct quote from a declassified WH memo regarding Iran/Iraq in 1984 under Reagan issued March 5th.

"While condemning Iraq's chemical weapons use . . . The United States finds the present Iranian regime's intransigent refusal to deviate from its avowed objective of eliminating the legitimate government of neighboring Iraq to be inconsistent with the accepted norms of behavior among nations and the moral and religious basis which it claims"

Now if we replace "The United States" with "THE WORLD"
and "Iranian" with "American" I think its a pretty apt statement. no?

HA! Heres another paragraph, same document...

"The United Stated deplores the tragic and needless loss of both Iranian and Iraqi lives, especially through attacks on civilian populations. We urge both states to respect their obligations under international conventions designed to mitigate the human suffering of warfare, particularly those agreements relating to the use of chemical weapons and to the humane treatment of prisoners of war"


My my how things have changed.
This article is full of stuff like this:
The above quotes are from document 43
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/





Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983.