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to purchase the new T-Shirts of Halabja, Iraq
"I survived twenty-four years of rule under Saddam Hussein, a chemical weapons attack, a crippling lack of clean water in my city, sewage in my home, promises by the American's to rebuild my water station which were later broken because of security and a lack of funding....
...and all I got is this lousy $1 billion dollar embassy for the Americans!"
The estimated cost for providing clean water to the survivors of Hussein worst chemical weapons attack is about $10 million. In April of 2005, the US government pulled money from the project to train and equip Iraq's army and police force, the majority of which are infiltrated by insurgents who then abscond with equipment and training.
When Nuradeen Ghreeb, an Iraqi civil engineer, learned his water project in Halabja had been canceled he said, "If the Americans think that training the Iraqi Army comes before clean drinking water for the people of Halabja, then we can't expect anything from them."
What a dreamer! Doesn't he know that we're not really training the army, we're building an embassy the size of VATICAN CITY complete with "the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water" on the scenic banks of the Tigris River. Ownership of the land, 104 acres of the most valuable real estate in Baghdad, has been transferred to the US government. The terms of this transfer have never been made public. We do know that it's utility systems will be independent of the rest of the city.
Fortunately, the Iraqi people can be distracted from the network of cranes and security constructing the 21-building embassy to tune in to watch Saddam's kangaroo trial. Just in case he somehow manages to evade conviction on charges that he ordered the killing of 145 people from Dujail in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt, the Iraqi government announced April 4, 2006, that Hussein's next trial would be for the gassing of 5,000 Kurds in Halabja over two days in March, 1988.
So does this mean we can nowalso take to court the US businesses and government officials that supplied the weapons and then publicly supported the massacre for two years? (Rumsfeld you better start packing!)You know, a court like Hussein's where the entire defense team walks out protesting the court's bias, two defense lawyers are murdered, one is injured, later fleeing Iraq and a judge who retires under pressure that he isbeing too lenient with the defendant. Or does this fall under the creed "Business and governments that make and sell biological weapons of terror don't kill people, even if they provided the logistics to find and deliver said weapons, Hussein and biological weapons of terror kill people."
At any rate, isn't nice to know we have our priorities in order?
~Lila
Because Responsible Citizens Clean Up After Their Government
http://goodusgov.org/
"I survived twenty-four years of rule under Saddam Hussein, a chemical weapons attack, a crippling lack of clean water in my city, sewage in my home, promises by the American's to rebuild my water station which were later broken because of security and a lack of funding....
...and all I got is this lousy $1 billion dollar embassy for the Americans!"
The estimated cost for providing clean water to the survivors of Hussein worst chemical weapons attack is about $10 million. In April of 2005, the US government pulled money from the project to train and equip Iraq's army and police force, the majority of which are infiltrated by insurgents who then abscond with equipment and training.
When Nuradeen Ghreeb, an Iraqi civil engineer, learned his water project in Halabja had been canceled he said, "If the Americans think that training the Iraqi Army comes before clean drinking water for the people of Halabja, then we can't expect anything from them."
What a dreamer! Doesn't he know that we're not really training the army, we're building an embassy the size of VATICAN CITY complete with "the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water" on the scenic banks of the Tigris River. Ownership of the land, 104 acres of the most valuable real estate in Baghdad, has been transferred to the US government. The terms of this transfer have never been made public. We do know that it's utility systems will be independent of the rest of the city.
Fortunately, the Iraqi people can be distracted from the network of cranes and security constructing the 21-building embassy to tune in to watch Saddam's kangaroo trial. Just in case he somehow manages to evade conviction on charges that he ordered the killing of 145 people from Dujail in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt, the Iraqi government announced April 4, 2006, that Hussein's next trial would be for the gassing of 5,000 Kurds in Halabja over two days in March, 1988.
So does this mean we can nowalso take to court the US businesses and government officials that supplied the weapons and then publicly supported the massacre for two years? (Rumsfeld you better start packing!)You know, a court like Hussein's where the entire defense team walks out protesting the court's bias, two defense lawyers are murdered, one is injured, later fleeing Iraq and a judge who retires under pressure that he isbeing too lenient with the defendant. Or does this fall under the creed "Business and governments that make and sell biological weapons of terror don't kill people, even if they provided the logistics to find and deliver said weapons, Hussein and biological weapons of terror kill people."
At any rate, isn't nice to know we have our priorities in order?
~Lila
Because Responsible Citizens Clean Up After Their Government
http://goodusgov.org/
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