Re: "smoked salmon socialists"

"pearl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Rubystars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > He committed genocide upon some of his own citizens.
>
> News you might have missed;
>
> Saddam never gassed his own people

Lie.

>      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

>From your source:

"The Kurdish civilians who died had the misfortune to be caught up in that
exchange. But they were not Iraq's main target."

Saddam didn't care about the Kurds. He certainly didn't hold back because
they were there!

The article goes on to speculate it may have been Iran's gas that killed
them. However it's not really made clear one way or the other, is it?


Also, I'd like you to take a look at this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2533897.stm

I have no idea why liberals think they have to make Saddam into some victim
of the U.S. As if someone like that could possibly be wronged by us. *L*

-Rubystars