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Patriotic Traitors [SocioPolitico]

Stunning search engine pointers over at Boing Boing. Was it the US government that gave Iraq the starter cultures for Anthrax and other biological weapons? Well, according to Donald Rumsfeld (quoted by CNN),

"I have never heard anything like what you've read, I have no knowledge of it whatsoever, and I doubt it"

But according to declassified defence department documents (as reported by Dawn):

The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that had both military and civilian applications, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic plague.

And who was the US government's special envoy to Iraq?

Among those instrumental in tilting US policy toward Baghdad during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war was Donald Rumsfeld, now defence secretary, whose December 1983 meeting with Saddam as a special presidential envoy paved the way for normalization of US-Iraqi relations.

Go read the entry on Boing Boing and research other jaw-dropping information that suggests the current US administration has a love of contextual ethics.

posted at 11:06 AM (UK) | |