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2006-06-05 Iraq

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Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2006-06-05 15:27|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 But of course, Iraqis were better off under Saddam. /heavy sarcasm.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2006-06-05 17:25|| 2006-06-05 17:25|| Front Page Top

#2 If you want to see what a monster Saddam was, check out this Mass Grave Website.

And the LLL never gets into this. They are all worried about the environment, but they never condemned his blasting of the oil wells in Kuwait during GW1. They don't give a rat's behind about anything but their agenda, certainly not these poor souls that were eaten up by the Saddam regime.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-06-05 17:52|| 2006-06-05 17:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I saw the dead tree version of the NYT. This story was front page, above the fold. What dirt does Mr. Burns hold on his editors to get such treatment when it goes so against the party line, I wonder?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-05 20:51|| 2006-06-05 20:51|| Front Page Top

#4 TW - Did the dead tree version include this money quote:

What happened here is not only a macabre marker in the history of Iraq under Mr. Hussein, but a harrowing footnote in American politics. The victims here, American and Iraqi officials say, died in Mr. Hussein's suppression of the Shiite uprising across southern Iraq in early 1991. It was a rebellion that survivors and American critics of the President George H. W. Bush say that the president encouraged after halting American troops at Iraq's southern border with Kuwait at the end of the Persian Gulf war.

For years, Middle East experts have debated Mr. Bush's role in encouraging Iraq's Shiites and Kurds to mount a challenge to Mr. Hussein after the war over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait ended, before ruling out American military action to halt the mass killings of Shiites that Mr. Hussein initiated to crush the uprising. Mr. Bush himself has said that what happened to the Shiites was one of the deepest regrets of his presidency.

Translation: Its Bush'es Fault. (Bush Senior...)

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-06-05 22:34|| 2006-06-05 22:34|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm afraid I've no idea, Crazy Fool. I just noticed it walking by in the grocery store, chatting on the phone with the clever people repairing Mr. Wife's car. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-05 23:19|| 2006-06-05 23:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not surprised to see this story under John Burns' byline. What does surprise me is that he can still stomach working with that filthy nest of Walter Duranty wannabees. About the time that Eason Jordan wrote his crocodile-tears "apology" for CNN's collaboration with the Saddam regime, Burns told an interviewer for Editor & Publisher that he had personally witnessed numerous American journos competing aggressively with each other to see who could do the best job of sucking up to the Baathists.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2006-06-05 23:49|| 2006-06-05 23:49|| Front Page Top

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