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Post by Log Item 74 on Mar 21, 2012 18:56:52 GMT -8
Remembering "The Highway Of Death" 28 February, 2010 On March 10, the scenes at the coastal road were still horrendous. Reporter Michael Kelly described them: For a 50 or 60-mile stretch from just north of Jahra to the Iraqi border, the road was littered with exploded and roasted vehicles, charred and blown-up bodies … I saw no bodies that had not belonged to men in uniform. It was not always easy to ascertain this because the force of the explosions and the heat of the fires had blown most of the clothing off the soldiers, and often too had cooked their remains into wizened, mummified, charcoal-men.www.countercurrents.org/lagauche280210.htm**The first British pilots to arrive at the scenes of slaughter returned to their base. They protested taking part in attacking defenseless soldiers, but, under threat of court martial, they eventually took part in the massacre. **The technique used in burying the soldiers involved a pair of M1-A1 tanks with plows shaped like giant teeth along each section of the trench line. The tanks took up positions on either side of the trenches. Bradley fighting vehicles and Vulcan armored personnel carriers straddled the trench line and fired into the Iraqi soldiers as the tanks covered them with piles of sand.
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Post by Paul Gillmor on Jul 12, 2012 20:11:00 GMT -8
Does having an informed public, aware of the nature of U.S. policy in Iraq, make a difference? Would Congress and the public have responded differently to official deception concerning U.S. policies in Iraq had they known the record of previous U.S. policies, including the export of weapons of mass destruction to the Saddam Hussein regime prior to the Gulf War? In the absence of any meaningful public inquiry on the origins of recent U.S. policy toward Iraq, this and more have been missing from public debate. Yet the record of U.S. support for Saddam Hussein, and for U.S. arms exports to Baghdad, is not hidden. It has not been subjected to formal censorship or classification. It is part of the rich public record of Congressional hearings held over a number of years with considerable publicity then and later. But to judge by the nature of public discussion on U.S. policy, the content of this record remains largely unexamined, its meaning an unasked question. How can one explain this apparent paradox of critical evidence that is both present and invisible? What accounts for its marginalization? www.legalleft.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/08gendzier.pdf
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Post by Homs on Aug 16, 2012 19:08:55 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Aug 10, 2014 10:32:39 GMT -8
Support for a land war zooms. It's a turning point. Desert Storm is launched. Kuwaiti baby incubator lies www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR4cgeJJPqg- Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter - given her lines, and coached in acting by the giant American PR firm, Hill & Knowlton- $10m Kuwaiti-US campaign - conspiracy: fake organizations, false documents, fraud, disinformation Nurse Nayirah was a young Kuwaiti woman who, in the run up to the 1990-91 Gulf war, gave fraudulent testimony to a non-governmental Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990. She was presented as a 15 year old volunteer nursing assistant who needed to hide her identity for security reasons. In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was al-Sabah and that she was the daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States and member of the Kuwaiti royal family who had been sitting just a few feet from her as she gave her evidence. It was further revealed that she was not in Kuwait at the time of the invasion and her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign which was run by the advertising and PR firm Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. more: wikispooks.com/wiki/Nayirah_%28testimony%29
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