Gość: sp;lit
IP: *.ipt.aol.com
22.12.04, 14:56
Nastepna niespodzianka - Domek z kart sie wali , jeszcze jeden dowod ze ,
neo-cons wrobili prezydenta ,...
uklony
============================================================================
The neo-cons who propagated the story that Saddam "gassed his own people,"
i.e., the Iraqi Kurds, will still insist he did gas the Kurds, back in 1988
when he gave the order to Chemical Ali, who told the Iraqi army to commit
genocide at the town of Halabja. But the news from Mohammed al-Obaidi is that
the team prosecuting Saddam for crimes against humanity has dropped the
genocide charge “due to insufficient evidence.”
============================================================================
Good News for Saddam Hussein
==================================
December 21, 2004
Jude Wanniski
The neo-cons who propagated the story that Saddam "gassed his own people,"
i.e., the Iraqi Kurds, will still insist he did gas the Kurds, back in 1988
when he gave the order to Chemical Ali, who told the Iraqi army to commit
genocide at the town of Halabja. But the news from Mohammed al-Obaidi is that
the team prosecuting Saddam for crimes against humanity has dropped the
genocide charge “due to insufficient evidence.”
Al-Obaidi assures me the news is true, and if it is, we should be learning
about it sooner or later from our news media. It will further complicate the
Bush administration’s problems in Iraq, as it had been relying on the
genocide charge to justify “regime change” in Baghdad when the other
rationales – WMD and Al Qaida connections – failed. I may be wrong, but if
this turns out to be true, it would be a positive development in resolving
the conflict in Iraq sooner, rather than later. Once the U.S. press corps
focuses on the issue, it would force President Bush to re-examine his own
assumptions about the
rationale for unilateral action and make it easier for him to shift gears
toward greater international involvement in resolving the several conflated
issues in the Middle East.
As most of you know, I have for the last two years argued that whatever else
Saddam Hussein did for good or ill as Iraq’s president since 1978, there is
no evidence that he committed genocide. That he gassed the Iraqi Kurds has
been an assertion that has been repeated so often by President Bush, Vice
President Cheney and the American press that I’m sure 99.9% of the people
believe it is gospel. I sent the "news" to several editors and a great many
political reporters yesterday when I learned of it, but nothing yet has
surfaced. Al-Obaidi tells me the news has appeared in the Arabic press.
Here is the note I got Monday from Dr. al-Obaidi (a medical doctor who has
been in exile in London for 20 years and is no fan of Saddam, but who has
been among those who have insisted there was no genocide committed by his
regime). It is followed with a press release he subsequently sent from the
legal defense team that spent several hours with Saddam on December 16, which
is interesting in and of itself, but which of course should be taken with a
grain of salt.