"Saddam gassed his own people"........

[Postman]

In 1988.

During the Iran-Iraq War.

When the US was supporting Saddam Hussein in his fight against Islamic Extremism.

Before the first Gulf War.


Should we attack Japan because they bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941?

[LoZoccolo]

1. When someone says that, they're basically telling you...

..."it's no use arguing with me, I'm just gonna stall you."

[mhr]

2. Actually CIA Reports Say That The Gas That Killed The Kurds

Was really from the Iranians.

Apparently the wind shifted and the Iranian gas blew across the Kurdish town.

Widely reported, just Google it.

[H2O Man]

4. Good point.

The truth is that a strong case can be made for any one of three groups having done this.

[Postman]

6. This story appeared in the NY Times a while back..

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1148.htm

[wakeme2008]

9. It was the DIA LOL

http://foi.missouri.edu/polinfoprop/warcrime.html

" But the truth is, all we know for certain is that Kurds were bombarded with poison gas that day at Halabja. We cannot say with any certainty that Iraqi chemical weapons killed the Kurds. This is not the only distortion in the Halabja story."

..cut..


" And the story gets murkier: immediately after the battle the United States Defense Intelligence Agency investigated and produced a classified report, which it circulated within the intelligence community on a need-to-know basis. That study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds, not Iraqi gas.

The agency did find that each side used gas against the other in the battle around Halabja. The condition of the dead Kurds' bodies, however, indicated they had been killed with a blood agent — that is, a cyanide-based gas — which Iran was known to use. The Iraqis, who are thought to have used mustard gas in the battle, are not known to have possessed blood agents at the time. "

..more at link...

[baldguy]

3. And Cheney & Rumsfeld sold him the gas.

[ClassWarrior]

5. Yeah, and Abe Lincoln shot and killed his own people...

...during the Civil War.

Except... it was a civil war!!

The Kurds were fighting WITH the Turks AGAINST Saddam. Those were the "his own people" he was gassing. Do you think Junior** or Cheney** would do any less?

NGU.

[tabasco]

7. Lest we forget, Ronald Reagan gave them the stuff.

http://counterpunch.org/dixon06172004.html

[OrlandoGator]

8. Using chemical weapons the U.S. gave him.

The info is all out there.

[Bluebear]

10. Only if they have huge oil reserves. n/t

[pansypoo53219]

11. technically

they weren't 'his' people.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. Too bad that story about Iraq is not true either.

[wli]

13. Bushler does, too

CS gas in sometimes lethal concentration, regular use in nonlethal concentrations.