“The Zionists didn’t carry out their operation without getting the consent of the terrorist American administration and it (the United States) must take responsibility for this crime,” Hamas said in a statement.

According to this argument, Israel is the puppet of the U.S.

Switching gears now, does the reader recall that the anti-Bush crowd were depicting the Reagan and Bush41 administrations as allies of Saddam?

Recall also that Israel destroyed Iraq’s nuclear reactor on June 7, 1981.

In effect, then, Reagan attacked Iraq through proxy. This puts the lie to the argument that Reagan-Bush41 wanted Iraq armed with W.M.D.