I know right now in the were in a lil discussions about whether we should take
any action is necessary because they use chemical weapons now
there is a little bit hypocrisy here in the US government talks about that
because of course
we know that are former ally iraq use chemical weapons against Iran
but we just found out through some declassified documents the CIA release
that were in the National Archives in College Park Maryland
and foreign policy that a great story on dupes
we knew that they were to use chemical weapons and apparently
implicitly signed off on now
i hear all the time from commentators like
Joe Scarborough take golly gee people in the Middle East Iran it said a
wealthy just their hatred of us is the rational in fact
go ahead to tell me why they hate us they hate us because eight is
they hate us because they hate us they hate us because they hate us
they hate us because they hate us interesting by the way
we did not repeat any of those he said all of those things
over and over again in one show KS because they hate us
now the CIA has acknowledged as well as two former presidents or current
president a former president that in fact
we did overthrow the democratically elected leader
love Iran in 1953 and now we find out
oh yeah we also knew that our ally Iraq at the time
was using chemical weapons against the run abdicate its cuz they hate us
so now let me give you the reality of this foreign policy reports
that these documents show that senior US officials
were being regularly informed about the scale the nerve gas attacks
they are tantamount to an official american admission of complicity
and summer the most gruesome chemical weapons attacks
ever launched now
one other people who was Obama's program is retired Air Force colonel Rick
Francona what does he have to say quote
the iraqis never told us that they intended to use nerve gas
they didn't have to we already knew now he was the head ove
a the intelligence they gathered
information on where iraq had mass their forces
and that becomes very relevant the story because you're going to say something
the iraqis
in there a very long war with Iran back in the nineteen eighties
had been using chemical weapons for years they started back in
it 1983 84 surely an 84
their launch chemical weapons and we knew in 88
we get information from our aerial footage showing that
Iran has found a whole in the iraqi defenses near basra
and that they're going to take advantage of that
unlikely infiltrate iraq take bosra
and maybe decisively and the war now we know that if we give information to the
iraqis they will very likely use those
chemical weapons to deflect that attack
will we given that information well skied goin' find out
now a yet according to foreign policy
quote courting the recently declassified CIA documents interviews with former
intelligence officials
like Francona the US had firm evidence if iraqi chemical attacks
beginning in 1983 now here's an actual core from the CIA documents quote
if the iraqis producer require large new supplies of mustard agent
they almost certainly would use it against Iranian troops
and towns near the border so now boss rove courses
at in that situation that we're talking about here words
near the border Iran has got their troops they moved him into place
and it looks like they're gonna attack and be successful
unless we tip of the iraqis now again for Policy explains
in the documents the CIA said that Iran might not
this clock discover persuasive evidence or the weapons use even though the
agency possess that
so that's really interesting on two fronts they're saying we know that
iraqis use it
were certain have it but the iranians don't necessarily have enough
evidence so this is it one of the reasons stated
for letting the iraqis keep using chemical weapons
because they like even though we know they're using it
Iran might never be able to prove unbrick bring it back to us so it's okay
and then here's a second reason they had for letting the iraqis continued use
chemical weapons quote
also the agency noted that the Soviet Union had previously used chemical
agents in Afghanistan
has suffered few replica russians in other words
a the russians didn't they got away with it so
if our proxy in this case a rack use that against Iran
well Saturday I remember we just told you
that they were using the chemical weapons and we knew it since 83 84
now the bassir attack is gonna happen in early 1988
this goes all the way up to ronald reagan now his
head of the CIA clearly knows about it is in the documents right
but the decision goes up to reagan and
they explain to him look it looks like Iran
if we don't tip of the iraqis are gonna go through this
whole the defense and they could win the war now
we could do other things with their rep recross Reagan writes in the notes are
the memo
for an Iranian victory
is unacceptable well
that would be about as clear as you can possibly imagine
other things might be acceptable but an Iranian victory
is not acceptable hate us because they hate us
guess what we did we let the iraqis no
where the Radian troops more guess what they did the EU sarin gas under
one last quote officials were also warned that Iran might launch
retaliatory attacks against US interests in the Middle East
including terror strikes if we believe the United States was complicit
in Iraq's chemical warfare campaign well it turns out
we pretty much work they pretty much knew
and we've have any enormous problem with Iran
for decades after that just like they thought we might
well we overthrew the democratically elected leader to Cu
and then we had iraq launch sarin gas on them
to make sure they did not win ed devastating war that cost them
all told number wife's but they probably hate us
just because they hate us
wake up to the reality what we've done
look you know I'm a patriot and I know that people get bothered by that
you know when I talk about it sometimes EQ's muting goes 'em
I believe an ideal american I believe an idea of America
and I think that we can live up to those ideals but oftentimes we obviously have
not
and it doesn't help the situation to bury your head in the sand
and to say %uh anybody who picks that stuff is anti-american
now we're pro-american we're trying to do better and by the way
wouldn't it be nice it we didn't antagonize the country so much
that date attacked us for decades on em
that we pushed them from a democracy too by the way
being run by ayatollahs nice job CIA
well played and then terror strikes for decades
because we six in a row using iraq guess on that
does that seem to help american interests of course not
but remember this too and this is really important the CIA
doesn't work for us it doesn't work for the american people
it works for corporate interests allow the people in the CIA
wind up going into that same corporate field at the top levels
though some other people that were in those top levels especially in the
decades past would go into the CIA
I don't know that revolving-door functions as well in turn so
you know corporate CEO's now going to see a that's more of an old school thing
but certainly still CIA people get jobs outside in defense contractors private
contractors
and another corporate appeals and so
in Latin America we want to overthrow country cuz
a banana company here in the US didn't like their policies on bananas
done we did that for a fucking by men are company
okay and if Iran is not cooperating in handing over there oil
to us and by the way when I say again it's not us the American people we never
get the ort
it's too contracts that so-called American companies
which are in fact of course multinational corporations
well then they're gonna have a coup on their hands and if they don't play ball
maybe we let our allies you sarin gas on that rather famous picture over
a rum sold in saddam hussein shaking dance you know I rosso shaking his hand
back in the nineteen eighties because he was selling in the weapons of mass
destruction
and that the user on and then we then later
when iraq we felt cross those so I can't believe your weapons of mass destruction
I'm just shocked shock I'm ft maybe because it
which by the way at that point we knew they had gotten rid of cuz
we also then tells us on that