Grappling with US foreign policy hypocricy

On Sept. 22, 1980 Iraq attacked and invaded Iran. A peace-loving superpower would rally political, economic, and diplomatic resources among the international community to intervene and bring an end to the Iraq-Iran War. Instead, the Reagan administration provided economic and military aid to Iraq including WMD's (chemical and biological weapons) despite the fact that Iraq's invasion of Iran violated international law and Saddam Hussein had brutally repressed his own people (Iraqi Shia and Kurds) through violence and torture. During this time, a civil war was being waged in Nicaragua between the Contra rebels and the Sandinista government. In-lieu of diplomacy, the CIA covertly financed the Contra rebels without Congressional knowledge or approval. Congress subsequently passed the 1982 Boland Amendment which outlawed certain US assistance to the Contras. In violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the Boland Amendment, members of the Reagan Administration sold missiles to Iran and the profits were used to illegally fund the Contras; hence, the Iran-Contra scandal. Would a worthy God bless a nation that simultaneously armed both sides in the Iraq-Iran War and stoked war in Nicaragua? What does the Bible say? If it would be an act of terrorism had Saddam supplied WMDs to attack America, was it an act of terrorism when America supplied WMDs to Saddam to attack Iran? Has militarism made America safer, or have the proverbial chickens come home to roost? Just angry rhetoric or does Reverend Wright's sermon simply confront the ugly truth? Victor T. Volskay, Jr.