September 28, 2005
What Happened in Kurdish Halabja?
~A number of links questioning whether Saddam attacked the Kurds with chemical weapons in 1988.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=-4&bh=2
~This makes my head hurt. If there's any doubts about Saddam gassing the Kurds why are so many of us Americans sure it happened? And if there's absolute proof he did it, what do these people gain from manufacturing doubt? Have Saddam's supporters hired a pr firm to soften his image before his war-crimes trial? Are all the writer's above hired-help? Or is Saddam's gassing of the Kurds just another lie about Iraq the American media is more than happy to perpetuate?
(Yes he did it but he used chemical weapons supplied by the Americans?
Yes Saddam did it with Iraqi manufactured weapons but he was America's ally then against Iran so America's State Dept. didn't condemn it at the time it happened? We waited until Saddam became more of a hindrance than as asset before widely reporting this war crime of his against the Kurds?)
I need an aspirin.
[photo from the site "Bloody Friday"; Halabja 1988]