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Glen Hallick wrote:

> The hypocrisy of the US and other countries is quite extensive. When Iraq
> submitted its 12,000 page inventory on its weapons, the UN Security Council
> saw fit to censor 8,000 pages. A Scottish newspaper recently found out some
> of the contents of what was censored. This included 3 US companies very
> active in Iraq's nuclear program up until the last war.

The operative words being '..up until the last war.'  Are those 
companies still '..active in Iraq's nuclear program..'?

Of course they are not.  What you fail to take into account is that the 
lack of US activity in Iraq's nuclear program since the gulf war is a 
large reason why Iraq, despite it's efforts in contravention of UN 
resolutions, has thankfully not yet been able to produce a nuclear weapon.

  Also 80 German, 24
> US, and 17 British companies, along with others from Russia and China still
> doing business with Iraq.

What kind of business are they doing?

The above is a disingenuous tactic, used often by purveyors of socialist 
propaganda, of taking something out of context and not including all of 
the facts in order to make a point.  For example the above is an attempt 
to make people believe that if a country was doing business with Iraq it 
must be involved in or implicitly condoning Iraq's activities.

Additionally note the use of the word censored to describe an act that 
was not at all censorship.  Those pages were removed from the Iraqi 
report as being superfluous and irrelevant to the central issue of 
Iraq's compliance with UN sanctions.


> Also of note, it is very interesting that when it comes to Iraq's use of
> chemical weapons the rhetoric is directed only on the horrific attacks
> inflicted on the Kurds in 1988. However these same countries denouncing
> those attacks are strangely silent on chemical attacks 3 years earlier. I
> guess these countries didn't give a shit then and still don't give a shit
> today about those victims: Iranian troops.

This is another disingenuous tactic, used by the left, of trying to make 
  previous incidents appear the same as subsequent ones in order to 
discredit those who are attempting to deal with the subsequent acts.

Anybody reading the above ought to ask themselves if the Iranian troops 
mentioned were members of a formed and authorized military unit engaged 
in war fighting and if they were deliberately gassed by their own country.

The Kurds mentioned were mainly civilians and were deliberately gassed 
by their own country, or at least the country generally accepted by the 
world as being their country

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