Part 53 – AUGUST 24 1988
"And so we resorted, not to poison gas, but to the atomic bomb. Are we therefore permitted to adopt a moral stance against the use of another kind of weapon - mustard gas? War is war is war. Poison gas, flame throwers, napalm, nuclear weapons - they are all obscene. How hypocritical to pick and choose." - Stanley Frankel, New York, Aug. 8, 1988
Today, United Nations inspectors said that Iraq used mustard gas against Iranian civilians in a bombing raid near the town of Oshnaviyeh on Aug. 2.