US gave Saddam blessing to use toxins against Iranians — RT News

Related article claims that US urged Saddam Hussein to use chemical weapons back in the 1980's.

I don't know if this is true or not, since I am not (слава богу!) CIA. But given what I have read and heard from news sites other than America's mainstream news-media, it seems clear to me that CIA have been secretly orchestrating many of these situations - creating dictatorships, then setting them up to fail. Many Americans share my point of view, that the US has been setting up puppet dictatorships all around the world, in the Middle East and in Latin-American countries. Saddam must not have been a good puppet ruler, because US took him out. US wants to do the same with Al-Assad.

I am not at all convinced that Assad is a "good guy" or that the Syrian government did not use chemical weapons. But at the same time, from everything I've been reading, the rebels are not exactly the "good guys" either! They appear to be a haphazard mix of Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra, and the original "free Syria" rebels, who had a legitimate reason for protest, but seem to have been co-opted by nefarious forces.

I have a friend in Syria who insists that the original Syrian rebels are NOT Al-Qaeda or Al-Nusra - they are just regular people who were tired of being oppressed. Her husband volunteers as a doctor in the refugee camps. I tend to believe what she says more than what I hear on the news, since she actually lives there and her husband is working there. She tells me that the rebels do NOT want the US involved! They originally asked the UN for a no-fly zone, but they didn't get it, and so their movement was taken over by terrorist groups, since no one else would help them.