[CLUE-Talk] Charlie Daniels comments, article about Saddam's sons.

[Randy Arabie]

On Sunday, 23 March 2003 at 13:42:43 -0700, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> 
> The thing which is most interesting to me is the fact that it seems as if
> it's only recently that the story of the Hussien regime's barbarity is
> gaining widespread exposure. Certainly, we all know about how he gassed
> the Kurds, and none of this information has been hidden under a barrel,
> but it seems to have been mostly off the U.S. public's radar screen (the
> world's?). So why is it that it takes the onset of war to focus the
> spotlight of public attention on stuff like this?

I guess it depends on what you mean by "widespread exposure".  I've been
aware of Saddam's barbarity since the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).  I can
recall seeing coverage on the network nightly news, I was a teen at the
time.

Human Rights Watch has a five page index of reports/documents on Iraq
dating back to 1990:

	http://www.hrw.org/mideast/iraq.php

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Randy
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