As the U.S. prepares to bomb Syria . . .

. . . over chemical weapons, it's only in independent outlets like CommonDreams.org ("US Complicity in 'Some of the Most Gruesome Chemical Weapons Attacks' Revealed") and Democracy Now! ("Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers") that I've learned about the U.S. government's complicity in the use of chemical weapons by Iraq in 1988 -- or the hardship from U.S. use of depleted uranium and white phospherous arms against Iraq. (I'm glad no super-superpower bombed us back then in "punishment"for what our government had done.)