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“International law” only applied to enemies of imperialism
There has been no evidence presented that the Syrian government is responsible for the
chemical attack that took the lives of hundreds of civilians. But the U.S. government and
Britain claim that their allegations alone give them the moral authority to launch military
action, in direct violation of international law. What they leave out is the long history of the
U.S. government and its partners using chemical weapons and other weapons of mass
destruction—and getting away with it. Here are nine examples:
#1: World War I, 1914-1918
Modern chemical weapons were first used on a mass scale during World War I, when the
imperialist powers of the world sent their soldiers to kill and die in clouds of mustard gas and
phosgene to re-divide the world amongst themselves. Germany was the first to use this deadly
new weapon, but all sides of the inter-imperialist war joined in. Gas attacks killed 90,000
soldiers and civilians, while being linked to another 1.2 million casualties. Over 10 percent of
all chemists in the United States were involved in the production of chemical weapons during
the war, and the government ordered 3,000 tons of its own homegrown type of gas.
#2: Britain in Mesopotamia in 1920
Facing a heroic uprising staged by the people of Iraq, British colonial authorities authorized
the use of chemical weapons against civilian populations, arguing in their “Manual of Military
Law” that “the rules of International Law… do not apply in wars with uncivilized States and
tribes”. Winston Churchill, then the civilian head of the British air force, stated that he was
“strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes,” which he argued, “would
spread a lively terror.”( http://thetaleofbittertruth.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/9-times-us-
and-partners-used-chemical-weapons-and-wmds-and-got-away-with-it//12.11.2014

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