Reply #9: We were bombing Baghdad also in 1998. How could congress not know?

[madfloridian]

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3861/is_200107/ai_n8969269/print

"As evening fell December 19, 1998, Baghdad's residents wondered if the bombardment that continued for three previous days would finally end A few hours earlier, I and three other Voices in the Wilderness members had arrived in Baghdad accompanied by our driver, Sattar. The US and UK assault against Iraq bewildered and angered many Jordanians and Iraqis whom we met en route. "Who defies the United Nations?" asked Abdullah, a hotel desk clerk in Jordan.

"Did you see?! Your country!" Abdullah's eyes were flashing as he snapped his fingers. "The Security Council still meeting and your country - it does not even wait, but just starts to bomb. " Driving into Iraq, we entered a nation the US called a "rogue state, " but, in the eyes of many whom we encountered, we hailed from the "rogue superpower."

"Did you see?! Your country!" Abdullah's eyes were flashing as he snapped his fingers. "The Security Council still meeting and your country - it does not even wait, but just starts to bomb. " Driving into Iraq, we entered a nation the US called a "rogue state, " but, in the eyes of many whom we encountered, we hailed from the "rogue superpower."

Sattar told us that the intense bombardments terrified people. "All the walls, they shake, " he said. "And the children scream and cry. But what can you do? In Baghdad, even a maternity hospital was badly damaged No place is safe."

Our guys had to know, and they let the public rally and make phone calls...and they ignored us all. I feel sick.



http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/220