Re: "smoked salmon socialists"

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> "Rubystars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > He committed genocide upon some of his own citizens.
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> News you might have missed;
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> 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

More from conservative Jude Wanniski . . .

What happened at Halabja?
http://www.supplysideinvestor.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=1967

Did Saddam Hussein Gas His Own People?
http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/11-18-98.html

The Politics of Dead Children
http://www.wanniski.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=1856

In Defense of Saddam Hussein
http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/12-14-00.html