Your allegiance to the US state-bank elites is misplaced. Just now I have realized that the US caused about a million deaths when it pushed Saddam Hussein to start the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88. The goal was to punish Iran for rebelling against the US-backed Shah and keeping its oil. The US supplied Saddam with chemical weapons and gave him targeting information against the Iranian army. The media ignored the incident, but is now courageous enough to express outrage every time Syria 'uses chemical weapons.' All this, ultimately, to prop up the money printed by the empire. I am happy to explain in much greater detail if there is an audience on this site.