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The Day Bush Cited As Of Kurdish Gas
Massacre
Is The Day Of My Lai Massacre
by Dr. Stephen C Pelletiere, March
16, 2003
In his radio address on March
15, "DUBYA" Bush reminded his listeners the next day to be the 15th
"bitter anniversary" of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons attack on
the Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja. Bush reportedly called Saddam
as
one of the "most cruel dictator in the history".
But in fact it is the USA that
militarily helped and equipped Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. And it
is American LaFarge company that provided Iraq with chemical weapon
materials. It is reported that "Papa" Bush was the owner and
Hillary Clinton was a director of this company. Moreover, the very claim
that Kurdish people of Halabja were killed by Iraq's toxic gas was found
to be fake.
Such a pack of shameless lies from DUBYA's mouth seems to prove him
to be a kind of crude ape. And interestingly this day (March 16) is
the 35th anniversary of MY LAI massacre in which American troops raped
and killed as much as 500 unarmed residents, many of which were women
and children and elders, in My Lai village on this day of 1968 during
Vietnam war.
Today we shall voice the My Lai massacre in antiwar rallies. Let's
remind ourselves and other people of the fact of wars by US and other
contries has been always bloody massacre of unarmed people, among all,
women and children and elders.
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@1. News Article on yesterday's "Dabya" address
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/international/middleeast/16DIPL.html
U.S. Names Iraqis Who Would Face War Crimes Trial ( By ELISABETH
BUMILLER )
WASHINGTON, March 15 -- For the first time, the Bush administration
has identified several senior Iraqi officials, including Saddam Hussein's
two sons, who would be tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity
after an American-led attack on Iraq, a senior American official said
today.
.......
Around the world, including in Washington, protesters assembled to demonstrate
against the impending war. But Mr. Bush continued to make what he called
a moral case for war, which he still maintains would be a last resort.
In his radio address, Mr. Bush reminded his listeners that it was the
15th "bitter anniversary" of Mr. Hussein's chemical weapons attack on
the Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja.
The attack, Mr. Bush said, "provided a glimpse of the crimes Saddam
Hussein is willing to commit, and the kind of threat he now presents
to the entire world."
........
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@2. Article on a myth of Iraqi gas massacre
The deep politics of regime removal in Iraq: Overt conquest, covert
operations Part Four: The unfinished business between Saddam Hussein
and George H.W. Bush ( By Larry Chin ; Online Journal Contributing
Editor ) November 14, 2002
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Chin111402/chin111402.html
Reagan-Bush also provided Saddam with dual-use technology -- computers,
armored vehicles, helicopters, chemicals -- through a vast network of
companies, based in the U.S. and abroad.
Apologists for Bush might insist that, regardless of US involvement,
the Iraqis still gassed the Kurds. Not entirely true.
According to UC Berkeley Professor Peter Dale Scott, Stephen Pelletiere,
chief of the CIA Iraq desk at Langley in the 1980s (and author of Iraq
and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf)
confirms that several hundred Kurds were likely killed by Iran?not Iraq.
Furthermore, these deaths were caused by cyanide gas, which Iraq had
not used in the war against Iran (they used mustard gas), and which,
says Pelletiere, they had no ability to produce.
Pelletiere argues that the gassing deaths of 100,000 Kurds claimed by
former Secretary of State George Shultz was a complete fabrication,
and that to this day no bodies were ever found. Scott concludes that
although there is evidence
that both sides used gas, and Iranian gas killed the Kurds, this information
was not revealed until 1990, leaving the impression that only Iraq was
involved, and cementing the "Saddam gassed Kurds" legend into place?to
be exploited and
repeated endlessly.
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@3. Article on American Lafarge company
Skolnick's REPORT: "THE ENRON BLACK MAGIC, PART FIVE" (
by Sherman H. Skolnick 2/10/02 )
BIG OIL and BIG ELECTRICITY
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/tebm5.html
In the 1980s, the Elder Bush was a secret, private business partner
of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. They split billions of dollars as
"protection money" from the weak, oil-soaked sheikdoms of the Persian
Gulf. [Details of the
little-known lawsuit in Chicago about the same are mentioned in our
website story, "The Secrets of Timothy McVeigh".] In its simplest form,
the Persian Gulf War was a falling out of business partners. As part
of his secret dealings with Saddam, Bush was a sizeable owner of the
unit of a French firm, American LaFarge, that reportedly supplied to
Bagdad the ingredients for making poison gas. The diabolical weapon,
outlawed by the Geneva Convention, was used by Iraq to beat back the
hordes of very young Iranian youngsters pressed into service as soldiers.
A director of American LaFarge was Hillary Rodham Clinton. [From an
early age, long before they were married, Bill and Hillary each had
separate roles with the American CIA.]
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@4. Article on the My Lai massacre
BBC: Monday, 20 July, 1998, 17:00 GMT 18:00 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/mylai/64344.stm
@@@@ Murder in the name of war - My Lai
The My Lai massacre, which took place on the morning of March 16, 1968,
was a watershed in the history of modern American combat, and a turning
point in the public perception of the Vietnam War.
In the course of three hours more than 500 Vietnamese civilians were
killed in cold blood at the hands of US troops. The soldiers had been
on a "search and destroy" mission to root out communist fighters in
what was fertile Viet Cong territory.
Yet there had been no firefight with the enemy - not a single shot was
fired at the soldiers of Charlie Company, a unit of the Americal Division's
11th Infantry Brigade.
The 48th Viet Cong Battalion - the intended target of the mission -
was nowhere to be seen.
When the story of My Lai was exposed, more than a year later, it tarnished
the name of the US army. Most Americans did not want to believe that
their revered GI Joe could be a wanton murderer.
My Lai was the sort of atrocity American patriots preferred to associate
with the Nazis.
@@ Charlie Company
Charlie Company had arrived in Vietnam three months before the My Lai
massacre.
By then the US - fighting alongside the South Vietnamese army - was
deeply entrenched in war against North Vietnam's communist forces. The
United States's had deployed nearly 500,000 soldiers in Vietnam, a commitment
which cost it $2
bn every month.
In January 1968 the Viet Cong guerrillas and the regular North Vietnamese
Army launched a joint attack on US positions, known as the Tet Offensive.
Washington maintained it could win the war, but on the ground morale
among its troops was
low.
Charlie Company was down to 105 men by mid-March of that year. It had
suffered 28 casualties, including five dead. Some of its soldiers had
already begun to drift towards brutal tactics for which they appeared
to enjoy impunity.
The brief for its March 16 mission was to prise out the Viet Cong, whose
elusive troops were thought to be hiding in My Lai - a hamlet of the
Son My village.
Two platoons moved in shortly after 8pm in the morning, while a third
held back for "mopping up" duties. Both platoons soon splintered and
once the shooting started it seemed to spark a chain reaction.
Soldiers went berserk, gunning down unarmed men, women, children and
babies. Families which huddled together for safety in huts or bunkers
were shown no mercy. Those who emerged with hands held high were murdered.
Some of the 120 or so soldiers opted out of the killing spree, but troop
commander Lt William Calley was not one of them. In one incident, Lt
Calley ordered two of his men to fire on a group of 60 civilians they
had rounded up. When one refused, Calley took over and, standing 10
feet from the crowd, blazed his gun at them.
Elsewhere in the village, other atrocities were in progress. Women were
gang raped; Vietnamese who had bowed to greet the Americans were beaten
with fists and tortured, clubbed with rifle butts and stabbed with bayonets.
Some victims
were mutilated with the signature "C Company" carved into the chest.
By late morning word had got back to higher authorities and a cease-fire
was ordered. My Lai was in a state of carnage. Bodies were strewn through
the village. The death toll totalled 504.
Only one American was injured - a GI who had shot himself in the foot
while clearing his pistol.
@ Part 1 - Murder in the name of war: My Lai
@ Part 2 - My Lai: the cover-up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/03/98/mylai/newsid_64000/64640.stm
@ Part 3 - My Lai: the whitewash
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/03/98/mylai/newsid_65000/65065.stm
@ Part 4 - Timeline: Vietnam war 1945-1975
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/03/98/mylai/newsid_62000/62755.stm
@ Part 5 - Heroes of My Lai honoured
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/03/98/mylai/newsid_62000/62924.stm
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@5. Other articles on the My Lai massacre
The My Lai Massacre, 1968
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/vietnamgenocide/Mylai.html
colin powell: don't ask about my lai, don't tell about iran-contra
by Russ Kick (russ@mindpollen.com) - May 21, 2001
http://www.disinfo.com/phpAds/adframe.php?n=acb06f40&what=zone:1&target=_blank&refresh=240&resize=1
SEE ALSO The
Big Lie about Saddam Gassing the Kurds
