Karen Hughes- lying for a living
Longtime Bush buddy Karen Hughes new job for the boss seems to be traveling around the world and lying to crowds of people, in order to foster goodwill among the savages. Like this:
“Saddam Hussein had gassed to death ‘hundreds of thousands’ of his own people,” Hughes told the hand-picked students, according to the Associated Press. “Hughes twice repeated the statement after being challenged by journalists. A State Department official later called The Associated Press to say she misspoke.”
…As we know, even the US Army War College admits there is no evidence Saddam gassed the Kurds. Stephen C. Pelletiere, Douglas V. Johnson II and Leif R. Rosenberger, of the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. War College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, wrote in 1990: “Having looked at all of the evidence that was available to us, we find it impossible to confirm the State Department’s claim that gas was used in this instance. To begin with there were never any victims produced. International relief organizations who examined the Kurds–in Turkey where they had gone for asylum–failed to discover any. Nor were there ever any found inside Iraq. The claim rests solely on testimony of the Kurds who had crossed the border into Turkey, where they were interviewed by staffers of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.” </i>
Saddam was a tyrant, no doubt. But claims like this, mouthed by a American, don’t help the situation we find ourselves in, i.e, everybody hates us.
