Originally posted by One Eyed Jack
I don't think so.
One-Eyed Jack, I am getting weary on this end doing your own civic duty for you. This is not the first time I have done so, either.
The official U.S. government reaction to Halabja? At first the government downplayed the reports, which were coming from Iranian sources. Once the media had confirmed the story and pictures of the dead villagers had been shown on television, the U.S. denounced the use of gas. Bush's press secretary told reporters, "Everyone in the administration saw the same reports you saw last night. They were horrible, outrageous, disgusting and should serve as a reminder to all countries of why chemical warfare should be banned." But as Power observes, "The United States issued no threats or demands." The government's objection was that Saddam had used gas to kill his own citizens, not that he had killed them. Indeed, subsequently State Department officials indicated that both sides--Iraq and Iran--were responsible perhaps for the gassing of civilian Kurds.
http://hnn.us/articles/862.html
I am getting ready to move and am cleaning out my library of books I have already read. One of them is
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark Noll, a first-rate Christian evangelical himself. Send me your address in a PM and I will mail it to you.
The author calls it "an epistle from a wounded lover."
Mark Noll loves God and he loves academics, but he is wounded because many of his colleagues deny the possibility of maintaining the integrity of both loves.
Noll's epistle is a memoir, a historical study, and a wide-ranging piece of cultural criticism that argues,
"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." Noll considers the effects of evangelical intellectual atrophy on American politics, science, and the arts, and he ultimately offers wise and practical advice for readers who want to explore the full intellectual implications of the incarnation of Christ
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/002-5210188-8649665?v=glance&s=books
This was what -- five years before the gassing incident?
Rumsfeld was photographed shaking hands with Saddam during a visit in 1983. The Kurds were attacked in 1988, and as the first link will show you,
our relationship with Saddam
represented by the handshake and smiles was still going strong at the time.