Eagle Eye wrote:
In article john
wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:13:40 -0600, Mike1
wrote:
(Werner J. Severin) wrote:
[snip]
Is anyone in disagreement with the basic "fact" that the United
States provided the chemicals, weapons, intelligence, and tacit
agreement that allowed Saddam Hussein to murder thousands of
Kurds and Iranians?
I would be more than happy to see you provide cites to any
*credible* literature than any US company provided chemical
weapons to Hussein. And please: Don't bore the nice audience with
crank theories regarding foreknowledge that fertilizers sold
legitimately through sequences of front-groups would end up as
precursor agents in chemical weapons.

And don't think I haven't noticed your attempt to dodge away from
the *fact* that Hussein DID possess and EMPLOY chemical weapons.


(Audience note: This exchange is an example of the earnest
leftist never accepting that an anti-American tyrant is guilty of
wholesale murder *unless* he can secure the stipulation that the
US was somehow responsible for it all along. E.g., Pol Pot's
"Killing Fields" were the "result" of anti-communist struggles in
southeast Asia, etc.)
I think wseverin in many of his previous posts gave detailed,
well-written explanations and footnotes of his charges.

You might look them up if you can read.

If you read Severin's other post ( http://tinyurl.com/3ydng ),
you'd notice he didn't write the "explanations and footnotes."
He cut and pasted an article written by John King.

However, I doubt there is any "evidence" that would convince you.

Is there any anti-US "evidence" you'd question?

The US government's involvement with Saddam Hussein and other
despots was shameful in many respects. But if you want to make
that case, don't overstate it with bull**** propaganda. And,
don't ignore the far worse actions of those outside the US
out of political expediency because they opposed the latest war.


You make a good point here. There are many things about any
US President that can be criticized and debated. But when
people display such intellectual dishonesty as the Bush
hating crowd has done, one really doesn't want to hear anything
they may say. They destroy their own credibility.

--
Later
Kal

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