From a reader: ""Hadi Kazemnejad is one of up to 1,000,000 Iranians who were
exposed to chemical weapons by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, officials say. Between
10,000 and 20,000 people were killed and 100,000 of those who survived have
developed illnesses, often chronic." "They were victimized by Saddam during the
war but the world community turned a blind eye to his war crimes and never tried
to stop him. When they removed Saddam, our victims expected help but they not
only ignored us, they targeted us with sanctions." "
"The
administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to
Iraq of numerous items that had both military and civilian applications,
including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and
bubonic plague…."
