The Lost Mystery of ‘Iraq-gate’
Consortium News By Peter Dyer February 28, 2007 (h)
Editor’s Note: On Dec. 30, 2006, George W. Bush and the Shiite-dominated government of Iraq took their revenge on Saddam Hussein, dropping him through a gallow’s trap door to his death dangling at the end of noose. The Bush family also was happy to know that a potentially troublesome witness was silenced.
In this guest article, Peter Dyer looks at the evidence and the unanswered questions of the Iraq-gate scandal: Now that Saddam Hussein has been executed for the 1982 massacre at Dujail, the trial for a larger-scale slaughter involving poison gas in 1988 has all but disappeared from public view.
Such a discussion inevitably would have led to how Saddam Hussein’s development of dangerous weapons was enabled by Western powers, including the United States. Between 1985 and 1990, the Reagan and Bush I administrations facilitated Saddam Hussein’s massive and ambitious military industrialization effort.
Billions of dollars of financial assistance and sophisticated technology flowed from the United States to Iraq. [more]