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RE: Don Rumsfeld, accessory to murder?
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Posted by: Carl Street on Oct 29, 2006 8:58 AM
Actually, it is worse that that...

I was an instructor in the military and can tell you that deploying chemical gas weapons is a very tricky operation requiring the following:

1. Excellent advance weather prognostication
2. Crack, well-trained, technically competent troops
3. First class, state-of-the-art protection equipment for your own personnel
4. First class, state-of-the-art deployment equipment
5. Air superiority of the target area
6. Excellent first class knowledge of the topography of the target area

Even WITH all of the above, up to 3%+ casualties amongst your own personnel is likely and those percentages rise dramatically with the loss of any of the above 6 requirements.

Iraq's army was composed largely of illiterate and semi-illiterate poorly motivated conscripts; Had almost NO weather prognostication ability; Had little personnel protection equipment and what it did have was shop-worn, dated, circa Korean-war vintage; Had NO aerosol deployment capability and certainly NO low-level suitably protected aerial deployment equipment (shielded helicopters); and there was NO impact evidence in the photos of the dead kurds -- elminating artillery and bomb delivery. More importantly, UN photos of the dead Kurds taken almost immediately after the atrocity showed NO Iraqi troops among the casualties.

Taking all the above into account, unless Sadaam Hussein had the technology to beam the gas to the Kurds via a Star Trek transporter; the probability his troops deployed the poison gas we supplied is roughly equal to that be being hit by a meteor. However, there are Other suspects...

Let's apply the MOM (Motivation, Opportunity, Means) parameter to our intellectual investigation:

The ONLY potential players are:
1. Saddaam's troops -- but circumstantial evidence virtually eliminates them so they lack the Means.
2. Iranian troops -- but they lack the Motivation; the Kurd's represented a 5th column behind Sadaam's lines and were their allies.
3. Turkish troops -- but the Kurd's have tribal links on both sides of that border and any such activity by the Turks would be politcally dangerous; undoubtedly would have caused extensive domestic strife; Been notoriously public; and required a large scale cross-border military incursion that did NOT occur. So they lack the Opportunity.
4. USA Black Ops -- Consider that at the time Sadaam was our surrogate and had initiated a war with Iran with the full support, blessings; material and technical aid of the US Military. To quote Dick Cheney, "Sadaam may be a son of a bitch; but he is OUR son of a bitch."

In that war, the Kurd's were a threat in Sadaam's rear and a potential source of sabotage, interdiction, and perhaps even allies of Iran and thus ultimately were a threat to what was considered USA interests.

So the USA had:
1. the Motivation to gas the Kurds
2. the Opportunity -- as Sadaam's ally we had unlimited access and our intelligence services and special forces ("advisors") had the run of the country.
3. the Means -- ONLY the USA had the technical ability, equipment, trained personnel, etc. to deploy the poison gas successfully.

Murderers have been sent to the electric chair on less evidence than that...

Chew on that one and unless you are compeletely intellectually dishonest you will arrive at the ONLY logical conclusion.