Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Reagan’s WMD Connection to Saddam Hussein:
Given all the indignant neoconservative “outrage” over the financial misdeeds arising from the UN’s socialist oil-for-food program during the 1990s, when the UN embargo was killing untold numbers of Iraqi children, one would think that there would be an equal amount of outrage over a much more disgraceful scandal — the U.S. delivery of weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein during the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
After all, as everyone knows, it was those WMDs that U.S. officials, from President Bush and Vice-President Cheney on down, ultimately used to terrify the American people into supporting the invasion and war of aggression against Iraq, a war that has killed or maimed thousands of innocent people — that is, people who had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington.
What I want to know is when are the self-righteous pro-war seat warmers going to do something about those Americans complicit in this illicit affair? They’ve been screeching endlessly about the threat from these weapons, but run to bury their heads up Tucker Carlson’s ass whenever someone mentions HOW these weapons got there in the first place. Read the rest here.