re: vermav a liberal's war, too: against innocenc
Dr. Christine Gosden Pt.5
Saddam Hussein clearly intended to complicate the task of treating the Halabja victims. At a minimum, he was using Halabja as part of the Iraqi CW test program. Handbooks for doctors in Iraqi military show sophisticated medical knowledge of the effects of CW. The Iraqi military used mustard gas in the "c......l," for which there is no defense or antidote. And it is also worth noting that Saddam did NOT use the nerve agent SOMAN, but instead used TABUN, SARIN and VX, as I said above. This is noteworthy because it shows that Hussein's experts were also well aware that pyridostigmine bromide -- one of the chief treatments against nerve agent -- is relatively ineffective against TABUN, SARIN and VX, but highly effective against SOMAN, the only agent he DID NOT use.
This testimony goes on to detail the terrible after effects of these poisons I wouldn't mind betting that all those unusual illnesses in Baghdad also have little to do with depleted uranium but are the result of the drift of these terrible gaseous poisons.
This is the only sort of evidence that has any credibilty. The other stuff may be nothing more than a manipulation of non credible military documents by an over zealous (read fanatical) Pelletiere to support an ideological position. Pelletiere is an Anti-ME/US policy voice and should be taken with a large dose of (epsom) salt.
