Bob has a link to a Ted Rall article: Selected Highlights From a Future Transcript
Here's a little excerpt:
AC: Sorry, your honor. Mr. Hussein, did you gas 5,000 Kurds at Halabja?
SH: Actually, that was the Iranians. Hold on...(fumbles through papers)...here it is. Stephen Pelletiere, the main CIA (news - web sites) political analyst on Iraq during the 1980s, wrote about this in The New York Times last January. He says yes, Kurds were gassed during one battle between us and Iranian troops, but the CIA "cannot say with any certainty that Iraqi chemical weapons killed the Kurds...The condition of the dead Kurds' bodies however, indicated they had been killed with a blood agent--that is, a cyanide-based gas--which Iran was known to use. The Iraqis, who are thought to have used mustard gas in the battle, are not known to have possessed blood agents at the time." Rumsfeld gave me permission to for mustard gas.
AC: Still, your soldiers used poison gas! Didn't you realize that you'd gone too far?
SH: The Americans kept telling me I hadn't gone far enough! I told them I wanted to end the war, but Reagan didn't want me to submit to "regime change"--that was Ayatollah Kholmeini's main demand to stop the fighting. Reagan had his CIA director Bill Casey ship me zillions of Chilean cluster bombs, but they still didn't stop the Iranians.
Monday, December 22, 2003
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