Saddam Hussein’s worst atrocities?

October 25th, 2005 at 18:11 Björn Hallberg

Kurt Nimmo dissects the blatant lies being peddled by the US regime regarding Saddam’s “atrocities”, which seem to grow more ominous by the day. Specifically, Karen Hughes blatantly lied to students while on a good-will tour to Indonesia, claiming that Saddam had “murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people using poison gas.”
Just the other day, the US tried to frame Syria and last week they peddled obvious disinformation regarding Iran. The question is if we can trust anything that comes out of the US these days. They have adopted in essence the over-the-top propaganda that we ridicule North Korea for constantly.

Nimmo also digs into Halabja and weeds out the disinformation. A simple enough concept that the corporate media seems estranged from these days.

And on another note, Karen Hughes was obviously bombarded with critical questions during her deceitful appearance. While the article doesn’t in detail reveal how she avoided those, her comment to a reporter provides a clue: “I understand that there are a lot of young people around the world, and a lot of people in our own country, who don’t agree with what we did in Iraq. We have to engage in the debate. That is what America is all about.”
Broken down into a simplistic discourse analysis, Hughes proposes that mostly young people are critical. While she doesn’t elaborate, it is a safe bet that she feels this is because they are misinformed and / or not entitled to an opinion. It is in short a passing condition. Furthermore she uses the standard United States of Amnesia approach, furthering the notion that people can only remember as far back as the last time the US committed atrocities internationally. That may be true where she comes from but not in Indonesia or anywhere else for that matter. Hence this is, for Hughes, also why people hate the US. Finally, claiming that the US engages in debate is an oxymoron of the highest caliber. It is not what the US is all about. In fact it is what the US is NOT about. And besides, having a haphazard, shallow debate about the rationale for Iraq now is pretty convenient considering it is almost three years late. Sure, we can debate it (in the simplistic American way of course) but only after we’ve taken the plunge and committed lives and resources. It’s sickening.

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