Não posso terminar o ano sem apontar meu dedo sujo na cara do governo americano. O Washigton Post traz uma reportagem falando o que a gente, fora dos EUA, já sabia há tempos. Que as tais armas de destruição em massa que o Saddam tem foram dadas pelos próprios americanos na época da guerra Irã-Iraque.

High on the Bush administration’s list of justifications for war against Iraq are President Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons, nuclear and biological programs, and his contacts with international terrorists. What U.S. officials rarely acknowledge is that these offenses date back to a period when Hussein was seen in Washington as a valued ally.

Among the people instrumental in tilting U.S. policy toward Baghdad during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war was Donald H. Rumsfeld, now defense secretary, whose December 1983 meeting with Hussein as a special presidential envoy paved the way for normalization of U.S.-Iraqi relations. Declassified documents show that Rumsfeld traveled to Baghdad at a time when Iraq was using chemical weapons on an “almost daily” basis in defiance of international conventions.