True? ...Perhaps.
After-all, Saddam is undisputably a murderer and a torturer (as are some of the dictatorial ruler of of our allies in Central Asia, etc.)
On the other-hand, the run-up to the Gulf War saw *many* lies presented as 'truth' to the American public.
For example, the claim that Iraq tossed hundreds of infants on the cold, cold floor to steal their incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital... this was later conclusively demonstrated to be a lie perpetrated by the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US (testifying before Congress under a fake name), and others, a charge trumped up for the cameras by a $10 million propaganda campaign run by a London-based ad agency, and repeated widely by US leaders at the UN and in Congress.
The claim by Donald Rumsfeld (believed by the Saudis, and influential in swinging their support for a war, as well as Congress' support) that the US had photographs of '250,000 Iraqi troops and tanks lined up in the desert near the Saudi border preparing for an invasion of the Saudi oil fields' was also conclusively shown to be a LIE when the US refused to show any of the supposed 'photographs'... and the French bought commercially available satellite photos of the same desert at the exact same point in time and released them to the World.
They showed... nothing there.
'In war, the first casuality is truth' - Churchill. |
