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I suppose you don't believe that there is a picture of Rummy shaking Saddam's hand? Goes in same folder with photos of Chamberlain & H*tler tete a tete, FDR and Uncle Joe warmly greeting, Nixon/Kruschev (before K starts throwing shoes), etc.. Many folks, not just USAian pols, thought that a modest boost for the wily Saddam might topple the then fresh and repressive Iranian regime. They who might search for any hint of morality or virtue in international politics are soon discouraged, the manual of standard practices having long ago been composed by graduates of Jesuit institutions. TMO |
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(Tchiowa) wrote: Many comments were made in the article about Rumsfeld's conduct and Schultz's conduct during 1883-1984. The article was nothing but propaganda from an extermist left wing group. As has already been pointed out a number of times, the article is from a reputable broadsheet. This is a direct link to it: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=475931 The source for the facts reported in it are declassified documents released by the US government. Are you saying that the US government is lying about this? Please tell us WHY you believe the statements to be false. Because when Saddam gassed the Kurds the US government immediately condemned him and his actions publicly, including in the UN. But did something else behind closed doors, as it has now implicitly admitted. |
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On 8 Jan 2004 00:19:27 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote: The statement made was that the US supported Saddam while Saddam was gassing Kurds. Yes, I deny that. Oh well, if denial helps you to sleep at night with those images of the kids of Halabja running thru your mind then go for it. In other words, you can't back up the accusation. |
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On 11 Jan 2004 21:30:46 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote:
Vector wrote in message . .. On 8 Jan 2004 00:19:27 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote: The statement made was that the US supported Saddam while Saddam was gassing Kurds. Yes, I deny that. Oh well, if denial helps you to sleep at night with those images of the kids of Halabja running thru your mind then go for it. In other words, you can't back up the accusation. No - it means I can't normally be stuffed dealing with ignorant trolls - but just for you - " Although the U.S. government officially denounced the gassing of the Kurds, it was business like never before with Iraq. After 1988 business with Iraq actually increased. By 1989, Iraq was given American agricultural guarantees worth $1 billion. Iraq was the largest importer of U.S. rice and the 2nd largest participant in the agricultural credit program." More on the greedy U$-Iraqi lovefest here - http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/kurds/alliance.html Or do a Google on the Prevention of Genocide Act and see how it was torpedoed by greedy U$ Scum who stood to lo$e out on their evil trade wuth Saddam. Here, try this link from The Axis of the Wilfully Obstuse which seems fairly appropriate in your case - http://www.afterimages.co.uk/backword/00006.html "But, by August 1988, the war between Baghdad and Tehran was over. And yet Saddam continued his genocidal "Anfal" campaign against the Kurds, which by late 1988 had resulted in close to 100,000 deaths, most of them civilian. So, in September 1988, then-Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island introduced the Prevention of Genocide Act, which would have ended all U.S. aid to Baghdad. The bill passed the Senate, but the Reagan administration helped scuttle it in the House. And, when George H. W. Bush became president the following year, he doubled U.S. agricultural loans to Iraq — money that, it would later be revealed, Saddam was partly diverting to the military." Or check this page on Peter Galbraith (son of JK) after his visit to the Kurds. " Few Americans know - or care - as much about the plight of the Kurds as Peter Galbraith.A former ambassador to Croatia from 1993 to 1998 he documented the Iraqi authorities' attacks against the Kurds in the late 1980s when he served as senior advisor to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1979-1993). He was one of the first to witness the genocide of the Kurds by the Iraqi government during a trip he made to the region in 1987.................................... Galbraith rushed to Capital Hill to set in motion a blistering response to the atrocity. One that he hoped would alter the course of world events. "I sat down and dictated, in about an hour, a bill to my secretary. I imposed every sanction on Iraq that I could think of. The legislation banned oil sales, required U.S. to oppose loans, cut off $700 million in agricultural and export credits and banned any export requiring a licence. I drafted this, and said what should we call it? The Bill was called the Prevention of Genocide Act ..... It would have imposed the harshest American economic sanctions against any country in twenty years. But Galbraith had to move quickly because Congress was about to adjourn and if he didn't get Senate and House Approval the Bill would die.The sanctions bill won Senate approval in just 24 hours. "For a major piece of legislation to pass the Senate in a day is virtually without precedent. I think the Senators who looked at this, responded from their hearts." Barham Salih, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government--Sulaymania was thrilled with the response. Peter Galbraith couldn't believe his luck and hoped the Bill would soon become law. Instead he found himself up against American capitalism........................... Lobbyists ............................ warned that the Bill would only punish Americans who were doing business with Iraq. Galbraith found himself facing farmers, bankers, exporters and oil men." http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/kurds/battle.html "The March 1988 massacre at Halabja--where Iraq government forces killed upwards of 5,000 civilians in that Kurdish town by gassing them with chemical weapons--was downplayed by the Reagan administration, even to the point of claiming that Iran, then the preferred American enemy, was actually responsible. The Halabja tragedy was not an isolated incident, as U.S. officials were well aware at the time. UN reports in 1986 and 1987 documented Iraq’s use of chemical weapons, which were confirmed both by investigations from the CIA and by U.S. embassy staff who visited Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Turkey. However, not only was the United States not particularly concerned about Saddam’s ongoing repression and the use of chemical weapons, the United States actually was supporting the Iraqi government’s procurement effort of materials necessary for the development of such an arsenal. Furthermore, officials from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency were stationed in Baghdad to pass on satellite imagery to the Iraqi military in order to help them target Iranian troop concentrations, in the full knowledge that Saddam was using chemical weapons against Iranian forces. During the 1980s, American companies, with U.S. government backing, supplied Saddam Hussein’s government with much of the raw materials for Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons programs. A Senate committee reported in 1994 that American companies licensed by the U.S. Commerce Department had shipped large quantities of materials usable in weapons production in Iraq, noting that such trade continued at least until the end of the decade, despite evidence of Iraqi chemical warfare against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Much of this trade was no oversight. It was made possible because the Reagan administration took Iraq off of its list of countries supporting terrorism in 1982, making the country eligible to receive such items. This re-designation came in spite of Iraq’s ongoing support of Abu Nidal and other terrorist groups. As late as December 1989, just eight months prior to Iraq’s designation as an enemy for having invaded Kuwait, the Bush administration pushed through new loans to the Iraqi government in order to facilitate U.S.-Iraqi trade. Meanwhile, according to a 1992 Senate investigation, the Commerce Department repeatedly deleted and altered information on export licenses for trade with Iraq in order to hide potential military uses of American exports. " "As late as December 1989, just eight months prior to Iraq’s designation as an enemy for having invaded Kuwait, the Bush administration pushed through new loans to the Iraqi government in order to facilitate U.S.-Iraqi trade. Meanwhile, according to a 1992 Senate investigation, the Commerce Department repeatedly deleted and altered information on export licenses for trade with Iraq in order to hide potential military uses of American exports." http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc3636.html |
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Nice one, "Vector".
Sadly, a great number of people deliberately ignore the facts. They don't want to know what really happened. They soak up simplistic propaganda without questioning it. Then in any discussion they throw out ridiculous one line inanities in response to serious analysis. As long as the world is full of people like this, politicians who are acting in the interests of themselves or big companies will be able to get away with all sorts of killing and destruction. Pete Loud "Maps of Iraq", http://users.powernet.co.uk/mkmarina/iraq/iraq.html "Vector" wrote in message ... On 11 Jan 2004 21:30:46 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote: Vector wrote in message . .. On 8 Jan 2004 00:19:27 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote: The statement made was that the US supported Saddam while Saddam was gassing Kurds. Yes, I deny that. Oh well, if denial helps you to sleep at night with those images of the kids of Halabja running thru your mind then go for it. In other words, you can't back up the accusation. No - it means I can't normally be stuffed dealing with ignorant trolls - but just for you - " Although the U.S. government officially denounced the gassing of the Kurds, it was business like never before with Iraq. After 1988 business with Iraq actually increased. By 1989, Iraq was given American agricultural guarantees worth $1 billion. Iraq was the largest importer of U.S. rice and the 2nd largest participant in the agricultural credit program." More on the greedy U$-Iraqi lovefest here - http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/kurds/alliance.html Or do a Google on the Prevention of Genocide Act and see how it was torpedoed by greedy U$ Scum who stood to lo$e out on their evil trade wuth Saddam. Here, try this link from The Axis of the Wilfully Obstuse which seems fairly appropriate in your case - http://www.afterimages.co.uk/backword/00006.html "But, by August 1988, the war between Baghdad and Tehran was over. And yet Saddam continued his genocidal "Anfal" campaign against the Kurds, which by late 1988 had resulted in close to 100,000 deaths, most of them civilian. So, in September 1988, then-Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island introduced the Prevention of Genocide Act, which would have ended all U.S. aid to Baghdad. The bill passed the Senate, but the Reagan administration helped scuttle it in the House. And, when George H. W. Bush became president the following year, he doubled U.S. agricultural loans to Iraq - money that, it would later be revealed, Saddam was partly diverting to the military." Or check this page on Peter Galbraith (son of JK) after his visit to the Kurds. " Few Americans know - or care - as much about the plight of the Kurds as Peter Galbraith.A former ambassador to Croatia from 1993 to 1998 he documented the Iraqi authorities' attacks against the Kurds in the late 1980s when he served as senior advisor to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1979-1993). He was one of the first to witness the genocide of the Kurds by the Iraqi government during a trip he made to the region in 1987.................................... Galbraith rushed to Capital Hill to set in motion a blistering response to the atrocity. One that he hoped would alter the course of world events. "I sat down and dictated, in about an hour, a bill to my secretary. I imposed every sanction on Iraq that I could think of. The legislation banned oil sales, required U.S. to oppose loans, cut off $700 million in agricultural and export credits and banned any export requiring a licence. I drafted this, and said what should we call it? The Bill was called the Prevention of Genocide Act ..... It would have imposed the harshest American economic sanctions against any country in twenty years. But Galbraith had to move quickly because Congress was about to adjourn and if he didn't get Senate and House Approval the Bill would die.The sanctions bill won Senate approval in just 24 hours. "For a major piece of legislation to pass the Senate in a day is virtually without precedent. I think the Senators who looked at this, responded from their hearts." Barham Salih, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government--Sulaymania was thrilled with the response. Peter Galbraith couldn't believe his luck and hoped the Bill would soon become law. Instead he found himself up against American capitalism........................... Lobbyists ............................ warned that the Bill would only punish Americans who were doing business with Iraq. Galbraith found himself facing farmers, bankers, exporters and oil men." http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/kurds/battle.html "The March 1988 massacre at Halabja--where Iraq government forces killed upwards of 5,000 civilians in that Kurdish town by gassing them with chemical weapons--was downplayed by the Reagan administration, even to the point of claiming that Iran, then the preferred American enemy, was actually responsible. The Halabja tragedy was not an isolated incident, as U.S. officials were well aware at the time. UN reports in 1986 and 1987 documented Iraq's use of chemical weapons, which were confirmed both by investigations from the CIA and by U.S. embassy staff who visited Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Turkey. However, not only was the United States not particularly concerned about Saddam's ongoing repression and the use of chemical weapons, the United States actually was supporting the Iraqi government's procurement effort of materials necessary for the development of such an arsenal. Furthermore, officials from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency were stationed in Baghdad to pass on satellite imagery to the Iraqi military in order to help them target Iranian troop concentrations, in the full knowledge that Saddam was using chemical weapons against Iranian forces. During the 1980s, American companies, with U.S. government backing, supplied Saddam Hussein's government with much of the raw materials for Iraq's chemical and biological weapons programs. A Senate committee reported in 1994 that American companies licensed by the U.S. Commerce Department had shipped large quantities of materials usable in weapons production in Iraq, noting that such trade continued at least until the end of the decade, despite evidence of Iraqi chemical warfare against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Much of this trade was no oversight. It was made possible because the Reagan administration took Iraq off of its list of countries supporting terrorism in 1982, making the country eligible to receive such items. This re-designation came in spite of Iraq's ongoing support of Abu Nidal and other terrorist groups. As late as December 1989, just eight months prior to Iraq's designation as an enemy for having invaded Kuwait, the Bush administration pushed through new loans to the Iraqi government in order to facilitate U.S.-Iraqi trade. Meanwhile, according to a 1992 Senate investigation, the Commerce Department repeatedly deleted and altered information on export licenses for trade with Iraq in order to hide potential military uses of American exports. " "As late as December 1989, just eight months prior to Iraq's designation as an enemy for having invaded Kuwait, the Bush administration pushed through new loans to the Iraqi government in order to facilitate U.S.-Iraqi trade. Meanwhile, according to a 1992 Senate investigation, the Commerce Department repeatedly deleted and altered information on export licenses for trade with Iraq in order to hide potential military uses of American exports." http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc3636.html |
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Congratulations, you've just summed up "Tchiowa" perfectly.
John L. On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:39:20 -0000, "Pete Loud" wrote: Nice one, "Vector". Sadly, a great number of people deliberately ignore the facts. They don't want to know what really happened. They soak up simplistic propaganda without questioning it. Then in any discussion they throw out ridiculous one line inanities in response to serious analysis. As long as the world is full of people like this, politicians who are acting in the interests of themselves or big companies will be able to get away with all sorts of killing and destruction. Pete Loud "Maps of Iraq", http://users.powernet.co.uk/mkmarina/iraq/iraq.html "Vector" wrote in message .. . On 11 Jan 2004 21:30:46 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote: Vector wrote in message ... On 8 Jan 2004 00:19:27 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote: The statement made was that the US supported Saddam while Saddam was gassing Kurds. Yes, I deny that. Oh well, if denial helps you to sleep at night with those images of the kids of Halabja running thru your mind then go for it. In other words, you can't back up the accusation. No - it means I can't normally be stuffed dealing with ignorant trolls - but just for you - " Although the U.S. government officially denounced the gassing of the Kurds, it was business like never before with Iraq. After 1988 business with Iraq actually increased. By 1989, Iraq was given American agricultural guarantees worth $1 billion. Iraq was the largest importer of U.S. rice and the 2nd largest participant in the agricultural credit program." More on the greedy U$-Iraqi lovefest here - http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/kurds/alliance.html Or do a Google on the Prevention of Genocide Act and see how it was torpedoed by greedy U$ Scum who stood to lo$e out on their evil trade wuth Saddam. Here, try this link from The Axis of the Wilfully Obstuse which seems fairly appropriate in your case - http://www.afterimages.co.uk/backword/00006.html "But, by August 1988, the war between Baghdad and Tehran was over. And yet Saddam continued his genocidal "Anfal" campaign against the Kurds, which by late 1988 had resulted in close to 100,000 deaths, most of them civilian. So, in September 1988, then-Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island introduced the Prevention of Genocide Act, which would have ended all U.S. aid to Baghdad. The bill passed the Senate, but the Reagan administration helped scuttle it in the House. And, when George H. W. Bush became president the following year, he doubled U.S. agricultural loans to Iraq - money that, it would later be revealed, Saddam was partly diverting to the military." Or check this page on Peter Galbraith (son of JK) after his visit to the Kurds. " Few Americans know - or care - as much about the plight of the Kurds as Peter Galbraith.A former ambassador to Croatia from 1993 to 1998 he documented the Iraqi authorities' attacks against the Kurds in the late 1980s when he served as senior advisor to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1979-1993). He was one of the first to witness the genocide of the Kurds by the Iraqi government during a trip he made to the region in 1987.................................... Galbraith rushed to Capital Hill to set in motion a blistering response to the atrocity. One that he hoped would alter the course of world events. "I sat down and dictated, in about an hour, a bill to my secretary. I imposed every sanction on Iraq that I could think of. The legislation banned oil sales, required U.S. to oppose loans, cut off $700 million in agricultural and export credits and banned any export requiring a licence. I drafted this, and said what should we call it? The Bill was called the Prevention of Genocide Act ..... It would have imposed the harshest American economic sanctions against any country in twenty years. But Galbraith had to move quickly because Congress was about to adjourn and if he didn't get Senate and House Approval the Bill would die.The sanctions bill won Senate approval in just 24 hours. "For a major piece of legislation to pass the Senate in a day is virtually without precedent. I think the Senators who looked at this, responded from their hearts." Barham Salih, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government--Sulaymania was thrilled with the response. Peter Galbraith couldn't believe his luck and hoped the Bill would soon become law. Instead he found himself up against American capitalism........................... Lobbyists ............................ warned that the Bill would only punish Americans who were doing business with Iraq. Galbraith found himself facing farmers, bankers, exporters and oil men." http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/kurds/battle.html "The March 1988 massacre at Halabja--where Iraq government forces killed upwards of 5,000 civilians in that Kurdish town by gassing them with chemical weapons--was downplayed by the Reagan administration, even to the point of claiming that Iran, then the preferred American enemy, was actually responsible. The Halabja tragedy was not an isolated incident, as U.S. officials were well aware at the time. UN reports in 1986 and 1987 documented Iraq's use of chemical weapons, which were confirmed both by investigations from the CIA and by U.S. embassy staff who visited Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Turkey. However, not only was the United States not particularly concerned about Saddam's ongoing repression and the use of chemical weapons, the United States actually was supporting the Iraqi government's procurement effort of materials necessary for the development of such an arsenal. Furthermore, officials from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency were stationed in Baghdad to pass on satellite imagery to the Iraqi military in order to help them target Iranian troop concentrations, in the full knowledge that Saddam was using chemical weapons against Iranian forces. During the 1980s, American companies, with U.S. government backing, supplied Saddam Hussein's government with much of the raw materials for Iraq's chemical and biological weapons programs. A Senate committee reported in 1994 that American companies licensed by the U.S. Commerce Department had shipped large quantities of materials usable in weapons production in Iraq, noting that such trade continued at least until the end of the decade, despite evidence of Iraqi chemical warfare against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Much of this trade was no oversight. It was made possible because the Reagan administration took Iraq off of its list of countries supporting terrorism in 1982, making the country eligible to receive such items. This re-designation came in spite of Iraq's ongoing support of Abu Nidal and other terrorist groups. As late as December 1989, just eight months prior to Iraq's designation as an enemy for having invaded Kuwait, the Bush administration pushed through new loans to the Iraqi government in order to facilitate U.S.-Iraqi trade. Meanwhile, according to a 1992 Senate investigation, the Commerce Department repeatedly deleted and altered information on export licenses for trade with Iraq in order to hide potential military uses of American exports. " "As late as December 1989, just eight months prior to Iraq's designation as an enemy for having invaded Kuwait, the Bush administration pushed through new loans to the Iraqi government in order to facilitate U.S.-Iraqi trade. Meanwhile, according to a 1992 Senate investigation, the Commerce Department repeatedly deleted and altered information on export licenses for trade with Iraq in order to hide potential military uses of American exports." http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc3636.html |
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Vector wrote in message . ..
On 11 Jan 2004 21:30:46 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote: Vector wrote in message . .. On 8 Jan 2004 00:19:27 -0800, (Tchiowa) wrote: The statement made was that the US supported Saddam while Saddam was gassing Kurds. Yes, I deny that. Oh well, if denial helps you to sleep at night with those images of the kids of Halabja running thru your mind then go for it. In other words, you can't back up the accusation. No - it means I can't normally be stuffed dealing with ignorant trolls - but just for you - Now read what you are citing: " Although the U.S. government officially denounced the gassing of the Kurds, it was business like never before with Iraq. After 1988 business with Iraq actually increased. By 1989, Iraq was given American agricultural guarantees worth $1 billion. Iraq was the largest importer of U.S. rice and the 2nd largest participant in the agricultural credit program." More on the greedy U$-Iraqi lovefest here - http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/kurds/alliance.html That does *NOT*, repeat *NOT* say that the US supported Saddam. American imports and exports from all kinds of countries. It has nothing to do with whether or not we support their leader. Or do a Google on the Prevention of Genocide Act and see how it was torpedoed by greedy U$ Scum who stood to lo$e out on their evil trade wuth Saddam. Here, try this link from The Axis of the Wilfully Obstuse which seems fairly appropriate in your case - http://www.afterimages.co.uk/backword/00006.html "But, by August 1988, the war between Baghdad and Tehran was over. And yet Saddam continued his genocidal "Anfal" campaign against the Kurds, which by late 1988 had resulted in close to 100,000 deaths, most of them civilian. So, in September 1988, then-Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island introduced the Prevention of Genocide Act, which would have ended all U.S. aid to Baghdad. The bill passed the Senate, but the Reagan administration helped scuttle it in the House. And, when George H. W. Bush became president the following year, he doubled U.S. agricultural loans to Iraq ? money that, it would later be revealed, Saddam was partly diverting to the military." Again, read what you quoted. It does not support the statement that I challenged. I snipped the rest because it's more of the same. You need to work on reading comprehension. Again, the statement made was the the US supported Saddam while he was gassing Kurds. The statement was not "US businesses imported or exported to Iraq after the attack" or anything like that. A very specific statement. And it simply isn't true. And nothing you posted contradicts that. But don't let that stop you......... |
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