United States' Hypocrisy?

Throughout 2002, the United States mobilised political and military personnel in a bid to attack Iraq. Tom Oakley takes each accusation that the US has made against Iraq and compares it to recent US conduct.

"Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction.": The United States has developed nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in the Cold War, although only nuclear weapons are officially available for use. In 1969, President Nixon decided that the US would destroy its biological stockpile; the order was carried out during the period 1971-2. More reading.; The United States was the first country to sign the CTBT, but on October 13, 1999, the U.S. Senate voted 51 to 48 not to ratify it. Source.; The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the agency set up to monitor the CWC's implementation, reported that it had carried out more than 250 inspections on the territory of twenty-five States Party to the convention. Eight states declared former or existing chemical weapons production plants (China, France, India, Russia,South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan) and pledged to destroy their stockpiles of chemical agents. Yet the CWC remained crippled by the failure of many states to provide the OPCW with the mandatory data declarations needed for verification of their compliance with the treaty. The United States, which had ratified the treaty - with some difficulty - in April 1997, was one of the notable culprits in this group. Source, and further reading.
"Iraq will not allow international weapons inspectors free, unimpeded access to sites that may be producing WMD.": The United States will not allow international inspectors free access to its facilities.
"If Iraq had WMD, they would supply them to other states.": The United States sold enough Polaris and Trident missiles to the United Kingdom to provide a complete nuclear deterrent. Although the warheads were assembled on British soil, it is no secret that American support played, and continues to play, a major part in British weapons development.
"Iraq has used chemical weapons and would use them again.": The U.S., which used defoliants and riot-control agents in Vietnam and Laos, finally ratified the Geneva Protocol in 1975 but with the stated reservation that the treaty did not apply either to defoliants or to riot-control agents. Source.
"Iraq might help terrorists by supporting and/or arming them.": In President Reagan's February 1985 State of the Union Address affirmed, "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives - on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua - to defy Soviet aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth. Support for freedom fighters is self-defense." Source. Those "freedom fighters" of course included the Afghan Mujaheddin, with Osama bin Laden amongst their number.; In 1986, the United States was found guilty by the World Court of "unlawful use of violence" (international terrorism) for its actions in Nicaragua. The United States then promptly vetoed a Security Council resolution calling on all states to adhere to international law. Source.
"Iraq has not obeyed United Nations resolutions.": Israel are breaking a UN resolution by maintaining occupation forces in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and Turkey is flouting a resolution demanding that it withdraw from Cyprus. Both are military and financial client states to the United States.
"Saddam Hussein is not a democratically elected leader.": Al Gore won more votes than George W. Bush in the 2000 Presidential Election. Bush only entered office after some controversial decisions on the treatment of votes in Florida, for which his brother Jeb was Governor, and where the head of the electoral college was an avid Bush supporter.