U.S. government chemical-attacks own people and foreigners: FDR to Obama

U.S. Chemical Corps
Utah Beach
1944

Press TV review: “10 chemical attacks U.S. doesn’t want you to talk about”

Excerpt, editing by Carolyn Bennett

1944 – 1945 Japan: U.S. Military killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians with Napalm [Franklin Roosevelt (Harry Truman) presidency]

Hiroshima August 6, 1945
Nagasaki August 9, 1945

1945 Japan: U.S. Government dropped nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities [Harry Truman presidency]

1950s USA St. Louis, Missouri:  U.S. Army tested [human testing] chemicals on St. Louis neighborhoods populated by black Americans [50s-60s U.S. presidencies: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, (Nixon)]

On Vietnamese
Agent Orange

1962 – 1971 Vietnam: U.S. Military dumped 20 million gallons of chemicals on Vietnam [Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon presidencies]

1988 Iraq: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helped Iraqi President Saddam Hussein massacre Iranians and Kurds with  chemical weapons [Ronald Reagan presidency]

On Americans
Waco Texas, USA 

1993 USA Waco, Texas: agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) attacked men, women, and children with tear gas [William Jefferson Clinton presidency]

On Iraqis
Chemical Weapons

2003 Iraq: U.S. Military littered Iraq with toxic depleted uranium [George W. Bush presidency]

2004 Iraq: Washington attacked Iraqi civilians with white phosphorus [George W. Bush presidency]

On Americans
Oakland, California, USA

2008 – 2009 Palestine/Gaza: Israel attacked Palestinian civilians with white phosphorus [George W. Bush (Barack Obama) presidency]

2011 USA Oakland, California: local police fired tear gas at ‘Occupy’ protesters [Barack Obama presidency]

Sources and notes

“10 chemical attacks U.S. doesn't want you to talk about,” September 8, 2013, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/08/322755/10-chemical-weapons-attacks-washington-doesnt-want-you-to-talk-about [WM/SL] Originally posted at www.policymic.com

Washington doesn't merely lack the legal authority for a military intervention in Syria. It lacks the moral authority.

We're talking about a government with a history of using chemical weapons against innocent people ─ far more prolific and deadly than the mere accusations Assad faces from a trigger-happy Western military-industrial complex bent on stifling further investigation before striking. 

Associated Press – Thursday October 4, 2012: “Army did secret chemical testing in poor black St. Louis neighborhoods in 1950s and 60s” by JIM SALTER |

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.

 After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical testing in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the height of the Cold War, she wonders if her own government is to blame.

In the mid-1950s, and again a decade later, the Army used motorized blowers atop a low-income housing high-rise, at schools and from the backs of station wagons to send a potentially dangerous compound into the already-hazy air in predominantly black areas of St. Louis.…

http://originalpeople.org/army-secret-chemical-testing-poor-black-st-louis-neighborhoods-1950s-60s/#.UizwtmzD-1s

U.S. Presidents

Source:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ronaldreagan

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)	42. William J. Clinton (1993-2001)
33. Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)	43. George W. Bush (2001-2009)
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)	44. Barack Obama (2009- 2016)
35. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
37. Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)
38. Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)
39. James Carter (1977-1981)
40. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
41. George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)

 Having assumed the office of U.S. president the day Roosevelt died, April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman authorized the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan’s cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). The U.S. bombings caused the immediate deaths of more than 100,000 men, women, and children [Britannica note].

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