The Washington Post, March 12th, 1991
NO SINGLE lapse of policy by the United States before the Gulf war may have been as costly morally and politically as the failure to complain long and loud about Iraq's use of poison gas against its rebellious Kurds. The lapse allowed Saddam Hussein and others to imagine that, in American eyes, just about any Iraqi misconduct might be condoned. This alone is reason for the caution just issued by Secretary of State James Baker. Without saying what the United States might do, he warned Iraq not to use this dread form of warfare against the dissident forces (including Kurds) that are now trying t...
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