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Crimes of War: Iran-Iraq Case Study
...during the (Iran-Iraq) war Western companies wittingly sold Iraq "dual use" chemicals and equipment for purported "fertilizer" plants, which they knew full well could produce a variety of treaty-banned gases and nerve agents. These weapons still cause problems for UN inspectors now tasked with removing them from Saddam's arsenal. It strains credulity to believe Western governments were not aware of the dangers of such chemicals before Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990.

But it was only then—with pressure on to demonize Saddam and with their own troops exposed to his chemical weapons—that Western governments overcame their amnesia and started denouncing Iraq's use of these proscribed arms. To this day the UN is shielding the Western firms involved. Rolf Ekeus, the former chief UN arms inspector in Iraq, has confirmed privately that the Security Council cut a deal in 1993 with UN inspectors, Baghdad, and the International Atomic Energy Agency not to reveal the companies' identities.
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2+2=60,000 Dead or Wouned
As reported on NPR this morning, the United States is sending textbooks to Afghanistan as educational aid for children. The ten million books will replace the old textbooks, which prescribe Jihad and teach mechanics and use of combat weapons. The U.S. also supplied those textbooks to Afghanistani children during Afghanistan's 10-year war with the Soviet Union.

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"The Senate races are very important to me," Bush said. "I want the Republicans to take control of the Senate."

Bush signed the campaign finance bill without ceremony in the Oval Wednesday morning. He barely had time to put the cap on his pen before he was off to raise cash for the three GOP candidates. Bush went on to raise millions of dollars for Republican Senate candidates, adding a meeting Thursday in Dallas with rescue workers who traveled to New York to help in the World Trade Center response immediately after the terrorist attacks—a typical manipulation tactic of the administration to peddle emotional public support while seeking private contributions.