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Larry J — (archived)

As for: What I am trying to point out is that he has had WMD AND been in conflict with us for 12 years, and has not used them against us. He knows we would stomp him out like a bug.

Yes, we told him during Desert Storm that we would respond to any use of WMD against our forces with nuclear weapons. He got the message. But there are reports he used them against the Kurds in 1991 AFTER Desert Storm. There's more info on Saddam's human rights record here.

Documents captured by the Kurds during the Gulf War and handed over to the nongovernmental organisation Human Rights Watch provided much information about Saddam’s persecution of the Kurds. They detail the arrest and execution in 1983 of 8,000 Kurdish males aged 13 and upwards.



Amnesty International in 1985 drew attention to reports of hundreds more dead and missing, including the disappearance of 300 Kurdish children arrested in Sulaimaniya, of whom some were tortured and three died in custody.

In 1988, Iraqi government forces systematically razed Kurdish villages and killed civilians. Amnesty International estimates that over 100,000 Kurds were killed or disappeared during 1987-1988, in an operation known as the Anfal
campaigns, to quell Kurdish insurgency and activities.

The campaign included the use of chemical weapons. According to Human Rights Watch, a single attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja killed up to 5,000 civilians and injured some 10,000 more.



If you look on page 12 of the document, you'll find Saddam's Chief of Security's instructions for crushing any uprising dated March 2/3/1991. It includes references to chemical weapons.

Saddam also has a long track record of lying about his weapons programs to the UN.

As for knowing the origins of a terrorist attack, tell me, who mailed those anthrax letters to Daschel and others over a year ago? To date, there hasn't been any arrests in that case. Sometimes, it's a lot harder to find the culprit than shows like CSI make out.

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