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"... Halabja marked something of a turning point in the United States’ scandalous support for Saddam Husayn’s war of aggression against the Islamic Republic—including his use of chemical weapons against civilian as well as military targets. Ever since the Iraqi military had started using chemical weapons in 1982 and Iran had started complaining about it to the United Nations Security Council, the United States had blocked any Security Council action on the matter. As we recount inGoing to Tehran,UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, acting on his own (because the Security Council wouldn’t support him), sent six fact-finding teams to investigate Iraq’s use of chemical weapons between 1984 and 1988. Their reports consistently confirmed Iran’s charges—and just as consistently, the United States refused to let the Council act. As then Secretary of State George Shultz later explained, Washington blocked international pressure on Iraq to stop using chemical weapons because “you don’t want Iran to win the war.”..."
This general & cheering-CBS are 'sleeping on the job'
"...WASHINGTON- The top U.S. military commander in Europe said Tuesday that NATO is conducting contingency planning for possible military involvement in Syria and American forces would be prepared if called upon by the United Nations and member countries..."
Al Jazeera loves death by suffocation (sorry, 'respiratory inhibition')
"... Ziad Haddad, a medic in Aleppo, however, told Al Jazeera, the victims seemed to have been exposed to organic pesticides and not chemical weapons, like Sarin and VX nerve agents.He said several patients arrived in the emergency room earlier on Tuesday morning with cases of suffocation and constricted pupils.
"Several of them died of respiratory inhibition (Wow! Listen to this! Inhibition, not SUFFOCATION!)" he said.
"Victims spoke of pungent smell. Chemical weapons are usually odourless."
“Moreover, the number of deaths is small compared to those who would have died had chemical weapons been used."