> Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <most snipped> > http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html > > In fact, the most emotionally moving testimony on > October 10 came from > a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl....Sobbing, she described
>what she had seen with her own eyes in > a hospital in Kuwait City...."I saw the > Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and > go into the room > where . . . babies were in incubators. They took the > babies out of the > incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies > on the cold floor to die..." > http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.html > ...Later, it was learned that Nayirah was in fact the > daughter of the > Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington and had no > connection to the Kuwait hospital. > > She had been coached - along with the handful of > others who would > "corroborate" the story - by senior executives of > Hill and Knowlton in > Washington, the biggest global PR firm at the time, > which had a > contract worth more than $10 million with the > Kuwaitis to make the case for war... "He raped her [a Handmaid] -- and she was *pregnant*!!" - IIRC, a line from the movie The Handmaid's Tale: a lie justifying the murder of a dissenter who had done no such thing. Now Saddam is a ravening dog who ought to be shot - but at least in the field of biological agents useful for terrorism, the US govt. gave his regime some teeth in the 80's [2 summers ago I posted links to the Library of Congress site detailing the bacterial pathogens, phage vectors and CDC training for at least one Iraqi scientist]. I suppose it's more palatable to believe that somebody's a monster all by themselves, not that your government helped create that horror. I had posted some time [2 years?] back that assassination, repugnant though it is, was preferable to full-out war, and was told that it had been tried and wasn't feasible. I recently was informed that a sniper/special forces team *had him in their crosshairs* and was ordered not to shoot -- it is not clear to me if this was during or after GWI. Aside: this is less reliable data than my previously-cited military technical advisor's assessment of Iraq pre-GWII; since I don't know the security-type system of rating information, I'll put it in medical research terms: the tech advisor's info I'd rate as a placebo-controlled trial, whereas this 'crosshairs' statement I'd class as a retrospective study. My hopes that this mess would be turned around, faint to begin with, are daily less, with the continued violence in Iraq, and now weather becoming a serious factor in the Kurdish north (apparently it was a concern for the Kurdish leaders before the election time was decided upon, but their observations were overruled). Debbi Pottery Barn Rules Maru }:/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page � Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
