Les USA n’ont pas toujours vu une ligne rouge dans l’utilisation des gaz de combat. When the US looked the other way at chemical weapons - The Washington Post
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Petit rappel circonstancié du côté casse-gueule de l’invocation de la morale dans les relations internationales : tous les dix ans, vous vous contredisez. Pendant la guerre Iran-Irak, le gouvernement américain était au moins complaisant (peut-être même complice en fournissant le nécessaire pour fabriquer les armes chimiques) avec les actes de Saddam et de son chimique cousin Ali.
the Reagan administration knew full well it was selling materials to Iraq that was being used for the manufacture of chemical weapons, and that Iraq was using such weapons, but U.S. officials were more concerned about whether Iran would win rather than how Iraq might eke out a victory. Dobbs noted that Iraq’s chemical weapons’ use was “hardly a secret, with the Iraqi military issuing this warning in February 1984: ”The invaders should know that for every harmful insect, there is an insecticide capable of annihilating it . . . and Iraq possesses this annihilation insecticide.”