Reply #81: Yeah...no kidding

[MrPrax]

Inspite of the Internet (or maybe because of it) there seems to be still a great deal of faith among the 'stay the course' crowd (not all of them are card-carrying Republicans either)

I get very very angry when dealing with some taking the 'saddam' line in this illegal war on Iraq (usually the same people that were so precise about the WMDs that Blix missed that they knew the page numbers--8 months later--they deny even having the conversations).

I especially get angry with the 'Hitchens crowd' that smear the an entire movement with some idea that we are apologist for genocidal maniacs.

Really? I distinctily remember listen to a forum in a church basement by a Kurd exile about the Saddam gas attacks and how we had to get the word out back in 1988...and we were sure that this explosive information would serve Kurdish aspiration for a homeland, not only in Iraq, but in Turkey and elsewhere.

Well I don't have to tell you that in 1989, the Bush Administration actually double military aid to the Butcher of Baghdad!

As far as Latin America, even at the time, if I remember it was reported that the US ambassador reported the news to Congress, but the massacre was covered up at the highest levels (like the rape and murder of churchworkers) because of funding ties to human rights.

Simply eliminate the reporting and you eliminate the NEED to tie aid to human rights abuses...

Believe me I have had many many debates over El Mozote where detrators point out that misinformation as simply 'left wing' propaganda and the 80,000+ that died in El Sal. are figments of America-hater's imagination or , of course the fashion at that time, FMLN/sandinista propaganda.

But I am not telling you anything...those were the daze. When freedom was defended by 'drug dealers' blowing up health collectives in Nicagrau...
The animals are still at it...