Rumsfeld Cuddled Up To Saddam

Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to continue the slash and burn.

The formerly secret documents reveal the Defence Secretary travelled to Baghdad 20 years ago to assure Iraq that America’s condemnation of its use of chemical weapons was made “strictly” in principle.

Has anyone in the current administration (many/most of whom were in W’s daddy’s administration) admitted that the U.S. has a history of supporting evil people? that the real revolution of the war in Iraq is that it’s a 180-degree about-face in U.S. policy (that looks to some people to just be hypocrisy)?

Earlier this year, Mr Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush administration regularly cited Saddam’s willingness to use chemical weapons against his own people as evidence of the threat presented to the rest of the world.

Sigh. My Christmas spirit is all gone, now.

Posted by etrigan at December 26, 2003 10:25 AM