Saddam did gas his own people

I believe he did... All the U.S Officals know it and they are just not admitting the fact as to give themselves Plausible deniability. Thought is is something they should tell everyone they wouldn't because we sold him the supplies to do it. I will be on tomorrow to give you the proof.
www.polyconomics.com...

www.rwor.org... This is the place that proves it. I believe I make my point

Is there any reason you couldn't put this in the "Saddam did NOT GAS HIS OWN PEOPLE" thread? I mean this is just your opinion of that.

I have seen the practice of posting a new thread in dichotomy before.

My only comment is that "Revolutionary Worker #1165" seems to string his stuff together OK, Lawrence, but it is nothing outstanding - it just adds in the complicity of the US in furthering the tyrant's chemical weapons capabilities - it doesn't constitute any insurmountable proof, it's just a historical review.

It does bring to mind this old chestnut:

Q. How can the US be sure that Saddam has chemical weapons?

A. They kept the receipts.

Originally posted by MaskedAvatar

Q. How can the US be sure that Saddam has chemical weapons?

A. They kept the receipts.

Hey when your going to quote the late great Bill Hicks, be sure to acknowlege that, shame on you MA.

It's weird though, he made that joke during the first Iraq war, do people learn nothing? I feel like I'm trapped in a #ing time capsule.

JN

I didn't know it was Bill Hicks. I came out with it myself around January.

Convergent thinking.

I see it was around in Gulf War 1!! I wasn't getting around enough then it seems.

When did Bill Hicks die?

"In other words, the U.S. rulers have no problem with chemical weapons and mass slaughter--so long as it serves THEIR imperialist interests."

Which has been evidenced the world over. There were and are far worse dictators than Saddam who the US should be going after. Unfortunately most of them have no oil.


jakomo

He died in 1994 aged 33, it was a tragedy. It was only after he died that most people realised he was a genius as before he was attacked by many for his views and he had to be toned down and banned on many shows. Corporate America would not stand for his Bush bashing.

Again, am I in a time capsule?

[Edited on 30-9-2003 by John Nada]

Oh gawd! I can't help myself! I've got to post some, and I mean some of Bill Hick's stuff from the first Gulf War, or as he put it, 'The Persian Gulf Distraction.'
He died at 34 by the way John Nada, of pancreatic cancer.

The Persian Gulf Distraction

"I'm so sick of arming the world, then sending troops over to destroy the frokin arms, you know what I mean? We keep arming these little countries, then we go and blow the shyte out of them. We're like the bullies of the world, y'know. We're like Jack Palance in the movie Shane, throwing the pistol at the sheepherder's feet.
"Pick it up."
"I don't wanna pick it up, Mister, you'll shoot me."
"Pick up the gun."
"Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister."
"Pick up the gun."
(He picks it up. Three shots ring out.)
"You all saw him - he had a gun."

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Gosh, since I was here, we had a war, that's pretty frokin weird, huh? A war? Wasn't really a war, you know, a war is when two armies are fighting, so, I don't know if you could call it a war, exactly, you know. The Persian Gulf Distraction, is more like it, I think.
Pretty amazing thing, really. Bush turned out to be a major frokin demon, who woulda guessed? Remember when he was first president, he was the "Wimp President," do you remember that? Cover of Newsweek, cover of frokin Newsweek, "WIMP PRESIDENT." Apparently, this stuck in this guy's craw a little bit. That guy was a dynamite waiting to go off.

(Iraqi voice) We surrendah!
(George Bush voice) Not good enough.
(Iraqi voice) We run away!
(George Bush voice) Too little, too late! Call me a wimp, c'mon, #ers, c'mon! Hold him back!

Those guys were in hog heaven over there, man. They had a big weapons catalogue opened up.

(Hillbilly voices)
What's G-12 do, Tommy?
See, it says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps us pay for the war effort.
Well, frock, pull that one up!
Pull up G-12, please.
SHOOP. BOOM!
Cool, what's G-13 do?

Big Sears weapons catalogue. 'Weapons, for all occasions!' You know.

See, everyone got boners over the technology, and it was pretty incredible. Watching missiles fly down air vents, pretty unbelievable. But couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people? Know what I mean? Fly over Ethiopia, "There's a guy that needs a banana!" SHOOP. The Stealth Banana. Smart fruit! I don't know. Once again, I was watching the frokin news, and it really threw me off. It depressed everyone, it's so scary watching the news, how they built it all out of proportion, like Iraq was ever, or could ever possibly, under any stretch of the imagination be a threat to us-wwwwhatsoever.
But watching the news, you never would have got that idea. Remember how it started, they kept talking about 'the Elite Republican Guard' in these hushed tones like these guys were the bogeymen or something. Yeah, we're doing well now, but we have yet to face-THE ELITE REPUBLICAN GUARD. Like these guys were twelve feet tall, desert warriors. KRRASH. NEVER LOST A BATTLE! KRRASH. WE shyte BULLETS! Yeah, well, after two months of continuous carpet bombings and not one reaction at all from them, they became simply, 'the Republican Guard.' Not nearly as elite as we may have led you to believe. And after another month of bombing, they went from 'the Elite Republican Guard' to 'the Republican Guard' to 'the Republicans made this shyte up about there being guards out there'. We hope you enjoyed your fireworks show. It was so pretty, and it took our mind off of domestic issues! The Persian Gulf distraction.



God, I love that guy.



[Edited on 1-10-2003 by kegs]

I think it needs to be pointed out that the Jack Palance and George Bush impersonations are the best I've ever heard, that's what makes them jokes so funny. His impersonations were unbelievable.

Do you think maybe we should start a Bill Hicks appreciation thread?

The mainstream media has gone out of its way to obscure the true nature of what happened at Halabja - the incident most famously used to support the "Saddam gassed his own people" line. It's true. He did. But what they don't say is that (A) we supplied and trained 'em and it didn't bother us one bit at the time b/c he was our ally and (B) On the ground investigations showed it was actually Iran's gas that killed the civilians.