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To: Neocon who wrote (127177)	3/23/2004 1:14:21 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons" Yeah those rocket-propelled grenades are a mother****er. Not to mention the sharks with fricking laser beams on their heads.

To: Neocon who wrote (127177)	3/23/2004 1:33:54 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The detailed descriptions of Saddam's torture chambers is as horrifying as would be those of North Korea's, Syria's, Iran's, Egypt's, Saudi Arabia's, etc. etc. etc. And they can almost upset you into believing, for a second, that it was the torture chambers that Bush used to convince us to go to war. It wasn't, though. Did we know about the torture when we were sending him hundreds of millions of dollars, including 48 mil for self protection? Of course we did. (Amnesty International and other human rights groups have been publicizing the torture chambers in Iraq for decades.) Irony: "...in 1985, the British company Uhde Ltd. built the Fulluja II plant fifty miles outside of Baghdad, which the Iraqis used for mustard and nerve has production. The Thatcher government provided $21 million...In addition, the Reagan administration eased up on its own technology export restrictions to Iraq, allowing the Iraqis to import supercomputers, machine tools, poisonous chemicals, and even strains of anthrax and bubonic plague... The United States and Britain helped arm Iraq with the very weapons of mass destruction that the second Bush administration were later to use as justification for forcibly removing Saddam from power." The poisonous gas the Iraqis used against the Kurds? "U.S. and British intelligence agents actually facilitated the Iraqi use of gas against the Iranians. Iraq then used poison gas against dozens of Kurdish villages in northern Iraq." America as Empire, Jim Garrison, page 95, not that you don't know this already from countless other sources.