Post by hunt4fun1 on Jul 28, 2007 22:06:24 GMT -5
The second installment of a five part series
Does anyone else remember Osiraq — AKA “Tammuz” — the nuclear reactor facility, which our French pals, built for Saddam? Jacques Chirac even presented Saddam with 27.5 pounds of 93-percent Uranium-235 as kind of a “sourdough starter kit” for his nuclear bakery. Chirac blithely justified it to the world community by saying since Israel probably had nukes, Iraq should have ’em too or it’s “no fairsies.” What a schmuck.
“Osiraq” was a cute conjunction of “Osiris,” the Egyptian god of the dead, and “Iraq” — an apt name choice, considering Uncle Saddam was telling the world he was gonna turn Tehran into a bowl of glowing glass — and anybody else who ticked him off. Iran took him at his word and bombed Osiraq, but did little damage.
Then Saddam threatened to melt down Tel Aviv and use it for a paperweight. The Israelis didn’t beg permission from the French or the UN, because they wanted to survive. They bombed Osiraq into kibbles & bits. That’s when Saddam “went mobile” with most of his nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs, using special trailers.
I don’t have space here for a full history, so let’s conclude with this: If you mount a Geiger counter on the bumper of your Tahoe and drive the highway from Baghdad to Damascus, you’d better keep the volume down. The clicking would drive you nuts. When our troops came knocking, the atomic evidence had been flushed.
“The measure of a regime of terror is the victims of its peace, not the casualties of its wars.” — Samir al-Khalil
As for chemical weapons and poison gas, ask this question of the Iranians, Iraq’s own southern Shia and surviving Kurds in the north: “How many dead does it take to qualify as mass destruction?” They know. And let’s not forget the words of Ali Hassan (“Chemical Ali”) al-Majid, Iraq’s WMD program chief. When told the world disapproved of his slaughter of the Kurds, he said, “I will kill them all with chemical weapons. Who is going to say anything? The international community? F*** them.”
to be continued......
Does anyone else remember Osiraq — AKA “Tammuz” — the nuclear reactor facility, which our French pals, built for Saddam? Jacques Chirac even presented Saddam with 27.5 pounds of 93-percent Uranium-235 as kind of a “sourdough starter kit” for his nuclear bakery. Chirac blithely justified it to the world community by saying since Israel probably had nukes, Iraq should have ’em too or it’s “no fairsies.” What a schmuck.
“Osiraq” was a cute conjunction of “Osiris,” the Egyptian god of the dead, and “Iraq” — an apt name choice, considering Uncle Saddam was telling the world he was gonna turn Tehran into a bowl of glowing glass — and anybody else who ticked him off. Iran took him at his word and bombed Osiraq, but did little damage.
Then Saddam threatened to melt down Tel Aviv and use it for a paperweight. The Israelis didn’t beg permission from the French or the UN, because they wanted to survive. They bombed Osiraq into kibbles & bits. That’s when Saddam “went mobile” with most of his nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs, using special trailers.
I don’t have space here for a full history, so let’s conclude with this: If you mount a Geiger counter on the bumper of your Tahoe and drive the highway from Baghdad to Damascus, you’d better keep the volume down. The clicking would drive you nuts. When our troops came knocking, the atomic evidence had been flushed.
“The measure of a regime of terror is the victims of its peace, not the casualties of its wars.” — Samir al-Khalil
As for chemical weapons and poison gas, ask this question of the Iranians, Iraq’s own southern Shia and surviving Kurds in the north: “How many dead does it take to qualify as mass destruction?” They know. And let’s not forget the words of Ali Hassan (“Chemical Ali”) al-Majid, Iraq’s WMD program chief. When told the world disapproved of his slaughter of the Kurds, he said, “I will kill them all with chemical weapons. Who is going to say anything? The international community? F*** them.”
to be continued......
