RE: virus: Depleted uranium

From: Jonathan Davis (jonathan.davis@lineone.net)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 08:45:34 MDT

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    Thanks for that document, Rhino. I wondered what the background of that
    picture was. Fisk shook Saddam's two years ago, and is a saint to the
    anti-war left, whereas old Rummie shook his hand 21 years ago and this is
    supposed to impute hypocrisy as to his current actions. I am staggered
    this is still used for propaganda purposes in the 21st century.

    Saddam's mass murdering and oppression of his people was for some the chief
    motivation in their support of the war. In that sense these figures are
    strongly relevant to any Iraq thesis.

    Kind regards

    Jonathan

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    From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com] On Behalf Of
    rhinoceros
    Sent: 21 May 2004 13:39
    To: virus@lucifer.com
    Subject: RE: virus: Depleted uranium

    SNIP

    [rhinoceros]
    No, I think this is interesting. I had another discussion with Joe in the
    Politics section of the BBS a couple of months ago. To make this 100,000
    per year number Joe had to add, among other things:

    - The children who died of malnutrition and diarrhea in all the years of the
    UN sunctions.

    - The results of all the wars Iraq has been involved in, probably the wars
    with tha USA too. An intersting question is why Joe starts from 1983 (21
    years). Why not 21 or 22 or 23 years? Apparently he wanted to include the
    Iraq-Inaq war (1980-1988) starting from a point when the casualties per year
    were high enough. Incidentaly, that year was also special for another
    reason:

    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/handshake300.jpg
    "Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then
    special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983"

    [rhinoceros]
    I won't burden you by pasting the lengthy document associated with that
    picture, which is dotted with links to official documents of the Reagan era.
    Here it is:

    The National Security Archive
    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/ 

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