Re: "smoked salmon socialists"

"Rubystars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> He committed genocide upon some of his own citizens.

News you might have missed;

Saddam never gassed his own people

     A Stephen C. Pelletiere commentary appeared in the January 31,
2003 New York Times, yet no one seems to have noticed.  Here is
part of what he wrote about frequent statements that Saddam Hussein
gassed 5000 Kurds at Halabja in 1991:

...as the Central Intelligence Agency's senior political analyst on Iraq
during the Iran-Iraq war, and as a professor at the Army War College
from 1988 to 2000, I was privy to much of the classified material that
flowed through Washington having to do with the Persian Gulf. In
addition, I headed a 1991 Army investigation into how the Iraqis
would fight a war against the United States; the classified version of
the report went into great detail on the Halabja affair.   ............
http://www.g2mil.com/Dec2003.htm