It is poison, but not for the US.

Yesterday President Obama warned President Bashar al-Assad of Syria against using chemical weapons against his enemies. " Today I want to make it absolutely clear al-Assad and those under his command, the world is watching," he said. " The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable and if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable. We simply cannot allow the 21st century to be darkened by the worst weapons of the 20th century," he went on. Wow! Noble words indeed. However, on the same day victims of the worst chemical mass murder in the world by Union Carbide in Bhopal on 3 December 1984 were demonstrating outside the Prime Minister's Office demanding justice. What justice? It was a Congress Chief Minister, Arjun Singh and a Congress Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi who escorted Warren Andersen to the airport. While leaving Andersen said," House arrest, no arrest..... bail, no bail.....I am free to go home. There is a law of the United States. India.....bye, bye. Take care." Even while 8000 people lay dead, thousands of others gone blind and still more thousands gasping for breath through rotten lungs Andersen was taunting his victims while still on Indian soil. With Congress in power is it likely that anyone will listen to the victims, after 28 years? Union Carbide was sold off to Dow Chemicals, renowned for producing Dioxin or Agent Orange which was sprayed over Vietnam and is still causing malformed babies to be born. There is a law of the United States. Indeed there is, and it says that the US can poison, nuke or blow up as many as it likes but no one will be held accountable. But if you were to harm any marauding American soldier on your own soil to liberate your country then you will be abducted and flown to Guantanamo prison camp where you will be tortured and locked up under inhuman conditions, forever if they so desire. All these crimes may have been in the last century but the victims are still suffering and dying with no apology, compensation or justice against the perpetrators. However, if Obama wants chemical warfare in this century then there is the use of depleted Uranium in Iraq since 2003 which will cause stillbirths, deformed babies and cancer for generations to come. The murderers, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are doing just fine, thank you. Yet, even though thousands of Indians died at Bhopal or have been killed by Pakistanis with arms supplied by the US, millions of Indians survived because of American food aid under the Public Law 480 program in the 60s and 70s. This brought on the green revolution which made India self sufficient in food. Now food is used to buy votes and an artificial scarcity is driving malnutrition. The US can do whatever it likes only because we allow it to.