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To: KLP who wrote (154755)	12/24/2004 9:05:06 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) of 281500

KLP, if it is actually true that, as you say, "Saddam gave not one single iota of being anything like human during his 30 year tenure," then why exactly were we supporting him until 1990 or so? And why exactly did we have to actually make up fictional events in 1991 and get a daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador to pretend to be a nurse and lie under oath in front of Congressional committee? Please recall that this woman--girl, really, she was in her early 20s at the time--was hired by Hill & Knoughten who in turn had had been hired by the WH to manage the PR for the war. She gave a tearful account of how she, a nurse, had seen those brutal Iraqi soldiers take babies from incubators and kill them for sport with their bayonettes, an account that infuriated both the listening Senators and the American public. Only many months later--after the decision to go to war against this "monster" was made--it turned out that she wasn't a nurse and this atrocity was entirely made up, as had been her identity. Ask yourself, why was this little charade necessary if "Saddam gave not one single iota of being anything like human during his 30 year tenure."

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