Posted on 09/25/2002 6:07:01 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds
THESE images of death are searing proof of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
The lifeless fathers, mothers and children were innocent victims of history’s deadliest ever chemical attack on civilians.
They died gasping, in burning, unimaginable agony after Saddam unleashed his terror arsenal on his own people.
Their faces — grotesquely distorted by the effects of toxins — tell a terrible tale.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
BOMB SADDAM
Of course the option is to wait and do nothing (as algore and the UN want) and see these kinds of dead bodies in the form of office workers in their suits and dresses lying lifeless and in piles on Avenue of the Americas or K Street or 3rd and Figueroa.
"Why Didn't You Do Anything and Try to Stop It?! Congressional Hearings!"
I know the antiwar freaks who are in bad need of a bath, will be in Hibiya Park in Tokyo, or elsewhere during my travels in the next few months while the war is being prosecuted in Baghdad. I have the right mind to download those pics, and print them, and type in "Saddam did this" with the date and location of the massacres, and hand them out to the scum. I may risk a fistfight, but we have got to stand up for the United States and Civiliation.
I just punched in the key word of the village in Google. Take a look at this:
"Due to their appropriate location, Halabja and the adjacent villages of Khormal and Dojailah had for long time been serving as a stronghold of the anti-Saddam Kurdish opposition. The Dictator wouldn't forget this fact off course and as customary under the terror rein of Saddam the punishment would be extremely severe and cruel. But this time the dictator's oppressive retaliation exceeded all his previously recorded crimes. Very early in the morning on Friday, 17th of March 1988 the troops of the dictator started the execution of a horrible massacre in which no civilian, child, woman, old or even animals and plants were spared. The town was bombarded by Saddam's warplanes with chemical agents. In the mean time the artillery bombarded heavily the escape route in a manner that Forced the civilians to stay in the danger-zone of the chemical bombardment. The chemical agents used were a cocktail of Mustard gas (which affects skin, eyes and the membranes of the nose, throat and lungs), and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX. The chemicals to which the people were exposed drenched their skin and clothes, affected their respiratory tracts and eyes and contaminated their water and food. The direct effect of this crime was the death of more than 5 000 people mostly women and children. but the long-term effect of the chemical agents used in the bombardment of Halabja is still effecting the environment of that area and causing a wide range of health problems for the inhabitants. The horrible pictures of the piles of bodies on the streets and alleys of Halabja describe the tragic death caused by the subjection to the cocktail of chemical agents used by the troops of the dictator. The indications from the crime's seen as the absence any evident wounds , bleedings, or traditional weapon injuries on the strangely discoloured bodies of the victims, leave no doubt about the use of chemical weapons. This was later confirmed by the post-mortem analysis performed by the Iranian physicians on the bodies of the victims. Halabja has entered history as the largest case of targeting civilian population with chemical weapons in the world."
I believe there is a better than even chance it will occur, and we are probably looking at the early winter or late fall.
WHY CAN'T THE AMERICAN MEDIA SHOW THESE PICTURES TO THE CITIZENS OF THE US???
WHY CAN"T PRES. BUSH HAND OUT COPIES OF THESE PICTURES AT THE UN???
Oddly enough, I saw a show on the local PBS station on this very topic. The pictures were horrifying. I agree: why isn't this stuff being shown on the news day and night?
Unfortunately, I think we all know the answer to this.
"...in an Aug 4, 1993, letter—-Vice President Al Gore had promised Ahmed Chalabi, president of the Iraq National Congress, an opposition umbrella group, that "I assure you that we will not turn our back on the Kurds or the other Iraqi communities subjected to the repression of Saddam Hussein's regime."
An exact quote is here.
"The President and I share the concerns you raise in your letter, and I assure you that we will not turn our backs on the Kurds or the other Iraqi communities subjected to the repression of Saddam Hussein's regime. Since April 1991, coalition forces have protected the inhabitants of northern Iraq from Baghdad's repression, and the administration is committed to continuing that effort."
Of course, in a sense, we are already bombing them like today when we took out anti aircraft positions west of the capital city.....
There were senate hearing about this stuff back in the late 80s. Reagan's policy had been to tilt towards Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war, and he authorized the export of much military hardware to Iraq, as well as components for chemical and biological weapons, even AFTER it came out that Saddam was probably using all of this stuff to gas the Kurds. When all of this came out it was somewhat embarassing for Reagan but then was forgotten again when the US officially broke ties with Iraq following the invasion of Kuwait.
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