SENATOR HATCH WATCH

I watched Senator Hatch this morning at a debate in St. George, Utah. He spoke for three minutes about the Iraq situation, claiming it was a good thing to depose Saddam because the dictator killed more than 300,000 of his own people - Shiites and Kurds.

Not so fast senator. The multitudes of Shiites killed were in open rebellion against the Iraq Republic. The Iraq army erased the uprising, which was a civil war involving the same parties as in the current situation. Those victims had been encouraged by agents of the George Herbert Walker Bush administration to overthrow Saddam. The pitiful rebels had been led to believe that U.S. forces were invading Iraq to end the reign of Saddam. They did not know they were alone on a mission impossible, with no Uncle Sam in sight.

As for the Kurds, they died under attack from Iranian forces using phosphene gas - not the mustard gas used by Iraq. The action took place during the Iran-Iraq war. The doctors of the U.S. Army War College went to Iraq to conduct tests on Kurd corpses, and found no victims of mustard gas. All died from phosphene gas.

Spinning, twisting, dodging, and manipulating are popular tactics these days.


IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.