Saddam is not the only chemical bomber
We’ve heard over and over that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has used chemical weapons within his own borders. What we haven’t heard is that he isn’t the only one who’s done so. In 1919 Winston Churchill, then secretary of state at the British war office, was a strong advocate of using chemical weapons against the Kurds and Iraqis. I do not understand this sqeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes, he said. And indeed gas was used against Iraqi rebels. as Geoff Simons documents in Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam.