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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (236)	1/6/2003 1:15:25 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

German TV airs documentary charging American war crimes in Afghanistan US State Department denounces broadcast By Stefan Steinberg wsws.org

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (236)	1/6/2003 2:01:35 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

That's what they get for screwing with us. Let that be a lesson to barbarians everywhere.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (236)	1/6/2003 2:05:07 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

A decade ago, when we were supporting the atrocities against the Kurds in both Turkey and Iraq, this was their status: <<< Another friend, Turkish president Turgut Ozal, was authorized to intensify Turkey's repression of Kurds in partial payment for his services as "a protector of peace," in Bush's words, joining those who "stand up for civilized values around the world" against Saddam Hussein. While making some gestures towards his own Kurdish population and attempting to split them from Iraqi Kurds, Ozal continues to preside over "the world's worst place to be Kurdish" (Vera Saeedpour, director of the New York-based program that monitors Kurdish human rights). >>> Since that time, we held it up to the world as a crime of Saddam's, while simultaneously providing massive, crucial support to the worse atrocities in Turkey. And zero comment from the "liberal media", of course. zmag.org Tom

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (236)	1/6/2003 2:09:52 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 25898

Just a little sample of much we liked Saddam before we changed our minds: <<< By mid-July 1990, our SOB [Saddam Hussein] was openly moving troops towards Kuwait and waving a fist at his neighbors. Relations with Washington remained warm. Bush intervened once again to block congressional efforts to deny loan guarantees to Iraq. On August 1, while intelligence warned of the impending invasion, Bush approved the sale of advanced data transmission equipment to his friendly SOB. In the preceding two weeks, licenses had been approved for $4.8 million in advanced technology products, including computers for the Ministry of Industry and Military Industrialization, for the Saad 16 research center that was later destroyed by bombing on grounds that it was developing rockets and poison gas, and for another plant that was repeatedly bombed as a chemical weapons factory. >>> From a very thorough and devastating 1991 critique of US foreign policy relating to Iraq: zmag.org