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Axis of Evil
Iraq: Brit dossier is lies, all lies!
2002-12-05
The Iraqi Government has also officially reacted to the Iraq human rights dossier published by the UK Government on Monday, saying the report was full of lies. The statement said that it was the US and the UK who were violating human rights daily by continuing to impose sanctions on Baghdad, and sending their jets to carry out air raids in the no-fly zones over the north and the south of Iraq. An Iraqi spokesman said the return of the UN inspectors was proving that the last dossier published by the British Government - about Baghdad's weapons of mass destruction - was full of falsifications as well.
Greta had video backing up the dossier on FoxNews last night. It including a couple firing squads, kicking prisoners in the face, and footage from the 1988 gas attack in Halabja. It was pretty gruesome — but of course it was all made up. She also had an apologist a human rights spokesman on, who said that stuff was all in the past and we should move on, and besides the U.S. and Britain had committed war crimes in Gulf War I. He didn't say which ones. Greta's reaction was amusing. She looked like she'd wandered into a nuthouse, which I suppose she had.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#3  "...and those that harbour terrorists". Does that include the apologists like HRW and AI? Isn't something like "moving on" more than apology but abetting by denying thus harbouring? Shouldn't we be cutting off their funds also?
Posted by: Jack   2002-12-06 04:01:47  

#2  how credible can you be to discredit your own research and findings? This is moronic. Move on to what? They depend on government to fund these NGO activities, but goverment support of these reports is just hypocracy? If the US wasn't so rich and powerful, Saddam wouldn't need to torture his people?
Posted by: john   2002-12-05 20:32:05  

#1  When even an avowed liberal like Greta gets that expression, you know some things are sinking in. My attitude to people like that is simply: please give them the biggest platform we can find.

With any luck, they'll bring that spokesman back several more times because it guarantees controversy and clash. And the credibility of the selective human rights apologists will drop a bit more with each exposure. As it should.
Posted by: Joe Katzman   2002-12-05 14:54:34  

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