Powell visits Halabja to remind world of Saddam regime's brutality

[peterh]

<http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/6779035.htm>

Five thousand residents died in one attack among many of Saddam's brutal campaign against the Kurds. Countless others suffered eyesight loss, respiratory ailments and cancers. Birth defects attributed to the attacks are common.
Powell's decision to stop here during a day and a half trip to Iraq, which ended Monday, appeared designed in part to counter criticism over the United States' failure to find caches of chemical and biological weapons since Saddam's regime collapsed in April.
Those weapons formed the crux of President Bush's argument for invading Iraq. Critics say he and his top aides exaggerated what was known about the state of Iraq's biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs in 2003.
Powell brushed aside such questions.



When you can’t present the original pig….you dress up a real old one and present it the world to see.

[xray s]

1. Hey Colin...while you are hopping mad....

...hop back to Washington and talk to this guy about why he was part of a regime that supported Hussein while he was attacking all those Kurds!

[cjbuchanan]

2. "What happened here in 1988 is never going to happen again."

Wait, 1988, um, wasn't Saddam an ally then? Didn't we continue to support Saddam for 2 more years after this attack?

Oh well, it was so long ago, we should all just forget about the details of the matter.

[wtmusic]

3. If we have to keep finding mass graves

everytime *'s polls go down, we're going to run out!

[nomaco-10]

4. Whenever things aren't going well

they always pull out the tapes of the poor Iraqi Curds. I remember their demise very well under the watch of bush sr. and the soundbite of him saying "I don't want to get involved in a civil war", Who do they think their fooling? This is the most ruthless and dispicable group of people ever assembled under one White House roof in the history of American politics.

[peterh]

5. Was it really Iraq or possibly Iran?

I guess this could fall into the conspiracy folder….but, maybe it’s an item that gets dusted off by the cabal prior to attacking Iran….I think I’m getting way to cynical in my old age.

< http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/GaseousLies.htm>

Report Suppressed: Iran Gassed Kurds, Not Iraq

US Army War College (USAWC) undertook a study of the use of chemical weapons by Iran and Iraq in order to better understand battlefield chemical warfare. They concluded that it was Iran and not Iraq that killed the Kurds.

[nomaco-10]

6. I've been reading alot about this too.

I'm still reading everything I can find and checking sources. I can never remember a time in my life that I have been so mistrustful of our government and the media. The bushies make the Nixon administration look like Mr. Rogers neighborhood.

[RamboLiberal]

8. CBS notes this as well

The Halabja massacre was the lynchpin of that case — even though there has been at least some doubt as to whether Iraq was responsible for it.

A 1990 Marine Corps report on "lessons learned" in the Iran-Iraq war notes that blood agents were used in the attack at Halabja.

"Since the Iraqis have no history of using these two agents — and the Iranians do — we conclude that the Iranians perpetrated this attack," the report states.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/iraq/main560449.shtml

And wish news people would roll out tapes of the Reagan/Bush cabals reaction back in 88 - ho hum, we don't want to get involved. No outrage here.

[Jacobin]

7. How bout a photo op at the mass graves of the 45,000 soldiers and

civilians you just bombed the fuck out of Colin?

Huh?

No balls, Colin?