Gassed town has no doubts on US claims [of Iraqi WMD's] (modified title)

AFP ^ | 09/15/03 | AFP

[spookycc]

Admin Moderator, please pull if a duplicate - I couldn't find anything on this article.

[sauropod]

Great article! Wonder if the major media will pick this one up?

[Miss Marple]

You may want to hit your ping list on this great article.

[Arpege92]

"Great article! Wonder if the major media will pick this one up?"

Only when pigs fly or people recieve ice water in hell!

[armymarinemom]

The mass graves are really going to haunt our troops for years to come. I have had several converstaions about this with returning troops. One Seabee kept talking about a grave that had infants with the parents. The infants were still bound with thier hands behind thier backs. This had to have been done to toruture the parents before they were all killed.

[sauropod]

It was a rhetorical question :-).

[Arpege92]

To which I answered with a smart a$$ remark! :-}

[At _War_With_Liberals]

The media has minimized the mass gassing.

Months ago, they had one ex official state that the perpetrator was not Iraq, it was Iran.

They gave as much time to that theory as they did to the reality that Saddam did it. Even if opinion runs 1000 to 1 against a false position, the media frames the debate as one pro, one con.

The media spends much more time condemning their own country.

[DrDeb]

Thank you for posting this poignant article -- and thanks again to President Bush and our COURAGEOUS military!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you, spooky! I was hoping someone would find a report on SOS Powell's visit to the mass grave. The world needs to know how much these people suffered under Saddam.

Thanks for the heads up, Miss Marple. Gen. Abizaid says that the members of the Iraqi council are some of the most courageous people he's ever met. I believe it.

8 If the press "cared" about the Iraqi people, they wouldn't attack their liberators daily

 

 Thanks, Tonkin!

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[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Lady In Blue]

What a moving article. Thanks for posting it.

[Lady In Blue]

ping

[nickcarraway]

thanks

[maui_hawaii]

They want evidence! Except for this part...that doesn't count.

[Avenger]

"Experts say Iraq used a concoction of substances including concentrated tear gas, mustard gas and the nerve agent VX, shipped by the United States, France and Britain which backed Saddam in his eight-year war with Iran."

Bullsh*t alert. UN and other organizations who studied this concluded that during that period Iraq was largely using mustard gas and tabun to a lesser degree. There was no evidence of VX. Furthermore according to UN studies the mustard gas was produced by the Soviet method which is more advanced compared the the US and Britian methods. Apparently there were dual use chemicals that were shipped by US companies through European intermediaries but this was not sponsored by the U.S. government. The extreme bias of this sort of claim (that largely goes uncontested) is astounding. By looking at the hardware of the Iraqi military (SCUDs, MIGS, T55, Mirage, Exocet, etc.) it is perfectly clear who armed them...the Soviets and the French.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

((Hugs))

[Alamo-Girl]

Volley hugs!

[MEG33]

Your comment about the babies with hands tied,buried with their mothers is horrifying.I'm sure it is the stuff of nightmares for our troops that saw this.It must be gratifying to them to know they have helped rid Iraq of this regime.

[piasa]

Oh, this will be picked up by the press. Parts of it anyway.

It contains a tasty morsel of bullschnit which is all too often found in AFP articles, and this morsel is the poison seed which is designed to be gobbled up with the spoonful of honey that makes up the rest of the article:

Experts say Iraq used a concoction of substances including concentrated tear gas, mustard gas and the nerve agent VX, shipped by the United States, France and Britain which backed Saddam in his eight-year war with Iran.

Iraq manufactured its own chemical weapons. It didn't get ready-made chemical weapons from the US or UK and it's doubtful there would be a need to procure what they could easily make themselves from France, either.