[Peace] NY times piece on Halabja, DU on DN

[pfmueth at pop.ameritech.net]

This op-ed is amazing, that it's published at all and that it 
contains the hegemony argument and the water issue at the end . ..
I reckon that this last might be used to discredit it in some circles.

I did hear some inside the beltway commentary (some usatoday 
journalist on the Diane Rehm show -WAMU) that the ambiguity  of 
origin somehow explains the silence of the Reagan and Bush 
administration contemporaneously, i.e. that they weren't  sure who 
was responsible for the atrocity. .  no one challenged this 
absurdity, Iraq was using mustard gas at the same time, and could be 
condemned "evenhandedly" Of course one should recall that Reagan was 
"evenhandedly" arming  both sides at the time, and Kissinger said let 
them kill each other off. . . .

BTW it's well worth the time to go to webactive.com and listen to 
Democracy Now and hear those shows that weren't broadcast with weft 
being dark. Thur and Fri feature parts one and two on depleted 
uranium.

cheers

PS I'm posting this to the peace list as that's where the NYT piece 
was sent tho' probably more appropriately should have gone to discuss