Comment Re:If You Are Right (Score 1) 232
"But I thought the gassing of civilians was just lies and propaganda to build a case for war? "
You thought wrong, as you've done throughout this exchange bc you're too anxious to attack the messenger rather than consider the actual points being made. In this case the propaganda factor in the refrain of "Saddam gassing his own people" is deceptive in that they weren't "his people", they were Kurds within colonially drawn boundaries amidst a war, enemies of Iraq to this day. and further, the gas was supplied by the _USA_ for exactly that usage.
Gassing people is very horrible indeed, but coming from the mouths of US officials, responsible for millions of innocents caught up in the US slaughter machine, it is clearly _propaganda_.
You thought wrong, as you've done throughout this exchange bc you're too anxious to attack the messenger rather than consider the actual points being made. In this case the propaganda factor in the refrain of "Saddam gassing his own people" is deceptive in that they weren't "his people", they were Kurds within colonially drawn boundaries amidst a war, enemies of Iraq to this day. and further, the gas was supplied by the _USA_ for exactly that usage.
Gassing people is very horrible indeed, but coming from the mouths of US officials, responsible for millions of innocents caught up in the US slaughter machine, it is clearly _propaganda_.