I'm tired of everyone across the United States using the excuse of Saddam "gassing his own people" as a justification for killing more Middle
Eastern innocents, especially since it isn't true.
"Supposedly Hussein gassed Iraqi Kurds at Halabja in March 1988 during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq war. But it isn't true. In 1990, the U.S.
government found that the Kurds died by cyanide gas. It was the Iranians who used cyanide, while the Iraqis used mustard gas. This means it was the
Iranians who accidentally killed the Kurds during battle. Hussein had nothing to do with it. (Source: Army War College, Stephen Pelletier &
colleague)"
www.truthaboutwar.org...
"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. "
www.nytimes.com...
I'm not saying Saddam wasn't a brutal dictator, but these are blatant lies, exaggerations, and perversions of the truth and shouldn't be allowed to
stand.