War College: Saddam didn’t gas Kurds
Stephen C. Pelletiere and Lt. Col. Douglas Johnson of the US Army War College have challenged one of the most cherished propaganda treasures of the U.S. war effort: that Saddam Hussein deliberately used poison gas against Iraqi Kurds.
A report prepared by the top CIA official handling the matter says Iran, not Iraq, carried out the gas attack at Halabja, which the U.S. has publicly blamed on Saddam. Further, evidence of the gas attack at Amadiyyah, also blamed on Saddam, is limited to eyewitness reports collected by the U.S. No bodies were produced to support the allegations of a gas attack, and the eyewitness reports did not describe symptoms that match any known chemical.
It would be shocking indeed if the Bush administration were caught using Big Lie tactics again, would it not?
See my previous entry on the gassing of Iraqis by the British, for which Winston Churchill was not punished but rather rewarded.