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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:03 PM Original message |
CNN: Declassified government docs show U.S. let Saddam gas Kurds for farm deal |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. well well well |
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lostnotforgotten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. More Importantly, Someone Knew The Truth And Did Not Tell All |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 08:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
34. Here you go - |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
46. Well, thank some powerful Dems who HELPED the coverup of IranContra, Iraqgate and BCCI |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. The Republicans won't let facts get in the way of the narrative that America is a good guy here. |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
38. "Smirk." - BFEE |
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northernlights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. where's the news? |
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Rambis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. At a conference |
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chelsea0011 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. And there are people (many) who think Reagan was one of our greatest. |
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Blarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 08:05 PM Response to Reply #5 |
35. Lets dig him up and send him to the Hague |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 03:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
47. Yes, the mythology is amazing... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. and a lot of those "mass graves" Bush loved to talk about |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Or the soldiers we buried alive during Desert Storm |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 06:15 AM Response to Reply #10 |
37. That's what's always haunted me. We buried supposedly thousands |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 01:01 PM Response to Reply #6 |
53. Iraqgate was another BushInc evil that was quickly disposed of after Bill took office. |
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MarkInCA (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
7. Unfortunately the US has a long histrory |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. Isn't this really old news? |
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JaneQPublic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:25 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. It's old news that very few people are aware of. (nt) |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 05:49 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. I had not heard of this before. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #32 |
48. Whenever I list matters outstanding in the 90s that Bill Clinton protected GHWBush |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. Declassified government docs show U.S. let Japan attack China in WWII. |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Um, Reagan was buddy-buddy with Saddam while this was going on. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Obama has shaken GWB's hand. |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:29 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Rumsfeld was sent as a diplomatic envoy. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I guess you forgot about the oil that Iran sold to the USA during the Reagan Administration. |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 04:27 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. I'm not arguing the Iranians were saints, despite your straw men. |
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lebkuchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
42. When the US is attacked w/biochemicals, those chems will probably be US made |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 02:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
54. I love this pic of ol' Rummy |
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enki23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. now *there* is a serious red herring |
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iconicgnom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 04:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
55. "US ... has a duty to be policeman of the world?" Hell no... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
12. We armed both sides. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. The gov't of Iran deliberately used chemical weapons against Iranian citizens? |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 04:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
26. We also provided satellite information and other intelligence to both. Massacre at Halabja |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 05:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Rumsfeld. n/t |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
14. So it's "We let him gas his own people!!111" |
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d_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
19. shocked |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
22. Well done, CNN! |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
23. Criminals have been operating in the highest levels of government |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 04:07 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. If Ford was the first President to commit a crime, then was Nixon innocent? |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #24 |
45. Poor logic and poor reading or previous post |
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digidigido (553 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 11:59 AM Response to Reply #45 |
51. Boojata is so into grammar and clarity, that he is willing to miss the point entirely |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
27. So where do you think Saddam got the chemicals |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 04:56 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I'm sure that the tracks have been covered up by now but |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 05:06 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Now you know why Saddam was never tried for he did to the Kurds. |
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samsingh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
30. i knew it. |
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wroberts189 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
33. Quoting Gomer Pyle: Suprise Suprise Suprise n/t |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 06:13 AM Response to Original message |
36. I recall a CIA report saying the gas was not Saddam's. |
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okieinpain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
39. "They Hate us for our Freedoms". n/t. |
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proReality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 09:37 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Yeah, our freedom to sell death to all and profit by it. n/t |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
40. Remember, once we were in Iraq, Powell visited Halabja and laid a wreath..he was one of the |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
43. And yet, Ronald Reagan is revered as a hero by many. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #43 |
49. It was always Poppy Bush's operation - and who do we have to thank for the revisionist history |
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ksimons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
44. K&R!! |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
50. HE GASSED HIS OWN PEOPLE IN HALABJA!!!! Remember when that was the rally cry for invasion? |
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BuelahWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #50 |
52. I was going to post this |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #50 |
56. Bush was so well-protected on the Iraq lies and he had all the cover needed due to coverups |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
57. kick. This story should be coming from your mouth at every conversation. |
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