Look at what Saddam did to the Kurds.
Posted on 12/04/2001 8:25:34 AM PST by Will_Kansas
Look at what Saddam did to the Kurds.
Well, there's a lot of kids missing arms and legs born to veterans. You can ignore that if you want to, but it's pretty clear that something is happening.
Yes!
Sure, as soon as they live up to their end of the bargain, which they had agreed upon.
Oh gosh. It's incubating. And what will we see when it's finished incubating?
without brains
Ah. The answer. Little Saddams.
Seriously, though - it seems more likely that a large number of these kinds of birth defects is the result of something like Saddam's rampant chemical weapons research, in all its sloppiness.
Really? Then, how do you explain Gulf War Syndrome?"
It's fairly well established that a number of soldiers were in fact exposed to a cocktail of chemicals in Iraq. Again, cauterize the place - it's past time.
It is still radioactive, but to a greatly lesser extent than fuel grade. The half-lives listed are silly, and I am not aware of anyone even speculating that the earth is anywhere near 25 billion years old. Most don't even believe the Universe to be that old. In any event, generally the longer the half-life, the lower the intensity of radiation (after all, it's spread out over more time).
Most of this article displays profound ignorance of the science it professes to be relating.
Exactly what I wanted to post. Saddam used nerve gas on his own people. I remember seeing the pictures of Kurds he was trying to eliminate.
My work experience includes chemical plants before my career as a software developer and I'll bet the Iraqi's don't use the environmental controls and safety measures we use in our plants. They are making some nasty stuff in their factories and you can bet their people are not protected. Consequently you will have more birth defects.
Our organophosphate pesticides are similar to the organophosphate nerve agents.
Most anything written in "The Independent" radiates ignorance at approximately two billion terracurie per second. That's why its readers tend to become instantly stupid as rocks.
The article is bogus. Propaganda. Besides which the 'Garden of Eden' was in present day Afghanistan.
Facts? Documentation?
What would be truly amazing here would be if so many of such would be able to go to term. A great many mutants and abbherations come to be under normal circumstance, but only rarely do they make it to birth with severe deformations, and rarer still to a year old. Iraqi pre-natal medical science is amazing.
Indeed. But we have seen that Saddam isn't exactly focussing on his people's welfare, much of the time. I'd expect the medical all-round coverage in Iraq to be, at least, slightly below par. Is it possible that all this is in fact deliberately manufactured, or results of deliberate experiments in the Iraqi chemical wepons program?
Mass hysteria.
How do you explain that all the malingerers and crappy soldiers in the units I was in 'suddenly' came down with GWS so they could get out of formations and stay on sick-call and get special treatment?
How do you explain that this mysterious illness appears more often in support troops than in combat troops who actually could have been exposed to 'something'?
Based on what I saw in the Army it was a nice way to be a sick-call commando and sham out of your job.
Sorry...look inward first.
So on point.
I have seen some of these photos with my own eyes in foreign news service providers online. Easier for the overly credulous to simply discount them as bu!!$hit than to go look for oneself, I guess.
Overthrowing/killing Saddam was never what the gulf war, the inspections or the sanctions were all about anyway. There are a million children dead/dying in Iraq (regardless of who's responsible) and Saddam is still quite alive.
'anything we do is always right, and anything they do is always wrong.'
exactly.
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