JMW wrote:
> You guys should be more compassionate.
They have too much compassion for terrorists and war criminals.
They're soft on crime and weak on thought. They need to show more
respect for the rule of law and hold murderers as well as their
co-conspirators responsible for their crimes. The article below
is accurate but needs one minor update. In the following sentence,
"current" should be changed to "disgraced former". <snort> "These
are facts that the public should know about the current defense
secretary of the United States."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1106-30.htm
Published on Monday, November 6, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Donald Rumsfeld
by Norman Solomon
Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed
more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's
reach back into history and extract these facts:
* On Dec. 20, 1983, the Washington Post reported that Rumsfeld
"visited Iraq in what U.S. officials said was an attempt to bolster the
already improving U.S. relations with that country."
* Two days later, the New York Times cited a "senior American
official" who "said that the United States remained ready to establish
full diplomatic relations with Iraq and that it was up to the Iraqis."
* On March 29, 1984, the Times reported: "American diplomats
pronounce themselves satisfied with relations between Iraq and the
United States and suggest that normal diplomatic ties have been restored
in all but name." Washington had some goodies for Saddam's regime, the
Times account noted, including "agricultural-commodity credits totaling
$840 million." And while "no results of the talks have been announced"
after the Rumsfeld visit to Baghdad three months earlier, "Western
European diplomats assume that the United States now exchanges some
intelligence on Iran with Iraq."
* A few months later, on July 17, 1984, a New York Times article
with a Baghdad dateline sketchily filled in a bit more information,
saying that the U.S. government "granted Iraq about $2 billion in
commodity credits to buy food over the last two years." The story
recalled that "Donald Rumsfeld, the former Middle East special envoy,
held two private meetings with the Iraqi president here," and the
dispatch mentioned in passing that "State Department human rights
reports have been uniformly critical of the Iraqi President, contending
that he ran a police state."
* Full diplomatic relations between Washington and Baghdad were
restored 11 months after Rumsfeld's December 1983 visit with Saddam --
who went on to use poison gas later in the decade, actions which
scarcely harmed relations with the Reagan administration.
* As the most senior U.S. official to visit Iraq in six years,
Rumsfeld had served as Reagan's point man for warming relations with
Saddam. In 1984, the administration engineered the sale to Baghdad of 45
ostensibly civilian-use Bell 214ST helicopters. Saddam's military found
them quite useful for attacking Kurdish civilians with poison gas in
1988, according to U.S. intelligence sources. "In response to the
gassing," journalist Jeremy Scahill has pointed out, "sweeping sanctions
were unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate that would have denied Iraq
access to most U.S. technology. The measure was killed by the White House."
These are facts that the public should know about the current
defense secretary of the United States.
Norman Solomon's latest book, "War Made Easy: How Presidents and
Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death," is out in paperback. For
information, go to:
www.warmadeeasy.com
--
http://911research.wtc7.net http://www.st911.org
Here's what happens to steel framed buildings exposed
to raging infernos for hours on end.
http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr69c.html
On 9-11-01, WTC7, a 47 story steel framed building, which
had only small, random fires, dropped in perfect symmetry
at near free fall speed as in a perfectly executed controlled
demolition.
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/videos.html
"You're doin' a heckuva job, Brownie!" - bu$h, a few days
before his FEMA chief, Micheal Brown was forced to resign
because of his gross incompetence.
"The tools that enable Cuba to save lives and preserve
human dignity during hurricanes are socialist values
and organization." - Dr. W.T. Whitney Jr
Ever wonder who benefits from the 300 MILLION
U.S. taxpayer dollars spent each DAY in Iraq?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0223-08.htm http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=21
"They are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And
there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to
take... men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons
who are capable of any atrocity... they respect no laws of
warfare or morality."
-bu$h describing his own illegal invasion of Iraq.
http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm
Don't let bu$h do to the United States what his very close
friend and top campaign contributor, Ken Lay, did to Enron...
~ Now we need a trial for Saddam's co-conspirators... ~ 
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