There are other instructive documents offered this weekend by the [National Security A]rchives. Don't miss the confidential cable from the US ambassador to Baghdad from 1988, a year in which the Senate rose up to pass economic sanctions against Iraq for using chemical weapons against the Kurds. The ambassador reports in an aside that the US construction company Bechtel has no intention of obeying the will of Congress -- and instead would use "non-US suppliers of technology and continue to do business in Iraq." This is the same Bechtel once again chowing down on millions of Iraq-related American dollars; the same Bechtel that counts among its directors George Shultz; the same George Shultz who as Secretary of State wrote Rumsfeld's suck-up instructions. Small world.
�Matt Bivens/Daily Outrage/The Nation Dec.19.03
