Rummy the hypocrit

I received an interesting article today that noted President Reagan dispatched Mr. Rumsfeld to Iraq in 1984 to reassure Saddam that no action would be taken over his battlefield use of chemical weapons.

Of course, at the time Saddam was seen as a "stabilizing influence" and hadn't irritated us yet.

The point is that given a justification for war that included twenty year-old use of chemical weapons, you'd think that those pushing the policy would've denounced it when the weapons were used, not two decades later.