U.S Secretary of State Kerry compared Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, to Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler, claiming that the trio are the only leaders to have used chemical weapons since the Geneva Protocol against such methods was signed in 1925.
It is also recorded in some histories that between the two world wars Winstone Churchill used the RAF to gas-bomb kurdish villages in Mesapotania as being the cheapest way to suppress their stroppy insurgency.
Comment by Dave Tomlin on 12 September, 2013 at 1:35 pm