If you need further evidence of American double standards then you may be intrigued to learn that Saddam Hussein was in 1980 given the keys to the city of Detroit, after donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to a local church.
Chaldean Town is the neighbourhood in Detroit founded in the twenties by immigrants from Turkey and Iraq – part of what is known as the Chaldean-Assyrian diaspora – who went to work in the automobile factories .