William Blum

About the author: William Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe, and South America. He has written extensively on U.S. involvement in foreign affairs and is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.

The U.S. government's disdainful reaction to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs rings hollow. American corporations have been supplying Iraq with components to build chemical and biological weapons for decades. And when Iraq used such weapons against Iran during the 1980s, the U.S. government was suspiciously silent because at that time Iran was considered a threat to U.S. interests in the Middle East. The United States only became vocal about Iraq's arsenal following Iraq's invasion...