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Iraqi Civilian Deaths ... caused by Bush's unprovoked war

 

Babies have been ripped off of incubators and
those incubators were shipped off to Baghdad.
The explosive allegation that Iraqi troops had invaded a Kuwaiti hospital in 1990, pulled babies from incubators and left them on the floor to die was a charge made on national TV by Bush's father. And it was patently false government propaganda. It was a hoax that was fabricated and perpetrated in 1990 by Hill & Knowlton, a Washington public relations firm, with a little help from President George Bush. Hill and Knowlton was paid $10.7 million by the government of Kuwait to sway U.S. public opinion in favor of the war.

Saddam has forced political prisoners to watch their own children being tortured.

Saddam has ordered that his opponents be decapitated.

Saddam has ordered women to be systematically raped.

Saddam Hussein is a murderous tyrant who poses an immediate threat to U.S. lives.

Saddam is developing weapons of mass destruction.

Hussein has gassed his own people.

Saddam Hussein has invaded his neighbors.

The North Vietnamese fired on a U.S. ship in the Gulf on Tonkin in 1964.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE?

President Lyndon Johnson made the Gulf of Tonkin claim, which was instrumental in getting the Senate to vote for a war resolution, though historians now agree that the shooting incident never happened. Over 58,000 U.S. servicemen were killed in the Vietnam War, a tragedy that might not have happened if an unscrupulous U.S. president had not lied to the American people. The American people have every right to demand proof from the president as he tries to persuade them to risk the lives of their sons and daughters in battle.

Do the satellite photos that Bush mentioned in his speech really show the construction of a nuclear power plant outside Baghdad? Did Iraqi intelligence agents really meet with senior al Qaeda operatives? Does Saddam really behead his political opponents and torture children in front of their parents? Unfortunately, we may never know. But we do know that before presidents launch military attacks against foreign nations, they sometimes launch propaganda attacks against the American people. Beware of government propaganda.

posted by Hal 7:36 PM