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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.
by Raju Thomas
Times of India, 16 September 2002: The repeated American propaganda weapon to rationalise the deaths of more than one million innocent Iraqis since 1991 through economic sanctions is that Saddam Hussein used poison gas against Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war and against Iraq’s own Kurdish citizens. The accusation is now being invoked to launch a full-scale American assault on Iraq. This claim of Iraq gassing its own citizens at Halabjah is suspect. First, both Iran and Iraq used chemical weapons against each other during their war. Second, at the termination of the Iran-Iraq war, professors Stephen Pelletiere and Leif Rosenberger, and Lt Colonel Douglas Johnson of the 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....
Originally posted by Primordial
I have read that it wasn't actually Iraq that gassed the Kurds but Iran..
www.informationclearinghouse.info...
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.
by Raju Thomas
Times of India, 16 September 2002: The repeated American propaganda weapon to rationalise the deaths of more than one million innocent Iraqis since 1991 through economic sanctions is that Saddam Hussein used poison gas against Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war and against Iraq’s own Kurdish citizens. The accusation is now being invoked to launch a full-scale American assault on Iraq. This claim of Iraq gassing its own citizens at Halabjah is suspect. First, both Iran and Iraq used chemical weapons against each other during their war. Second, at the termination of the Iran-Iraq war, professors Stephen Pelletiere and Leif Rosenberger, and Lt Colonel Douglas Johnson of the 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....
Originally posted by budski
The only dirty work the US and other nations are doing, are the ones that benefit themselves.
All this prtecting democracy and freedom stuff is a red herring designed to invoke patriotism so that people don'tlook too closely at what's really happening.
Originally posted by budski
I'm not sure that "democracy" in afghanistan, or anywhere else for that matter is really the point.
The point is that our elected officials use these words as rallying points for the patriotic gullible to further their own ends.
A good case in point would be Tony Blair as a middle east peace envoy.
I mean, come on - does anyone really believe that?
Originally posted by budski
It is more than a single issue, but the fact is that our governments try to justify wars as being somehow good as they "free" people from tyranny, when in reality most tyranny and genocide goes ignored because there aren't resources they can steal from the countries where it is taking place.
Originally posted by blueorder
Yes, white soldiers "intervening" in hell holes such as Sudan and Rwanda, yes I can just picture the hysteria from the liberal/left.
Bad things happen in the world, people hate other groups of people over race, religion, ethnicity whatever in Africa, Asia, Europe etc.
This will always happen
Originally posted by Kailassa
Is it possible the CIA wanted the Kurds gassed?
The USA supplied the instructions, the raw materials, the technology, and possibly even helped build the apparatus in Iraq to make poison gas from the ingredients they supplied. And the Black Hawks it was sprayed from came from America.
Originally posted by budski
You still seem to be missing my point.
Western nations have set themselves up as the arbiters of all that is good and great and make loud noises about fighting tyranny and promoting freedom around the globe, even going so far as to proclaim themselves "the worlds police" and their allies - and gullible people believe this.
To use an analogy, when was the last time you saw a real polieman refuse to arrest someone killing someone else in the middle of the street unless there was something in it for them?