During the initial phase of the American war on Iraq, the US military constructed a deck of cards listing 55 of Iraq's leaders as an individual playing card. As they were captured, it was touted as proof of how well the war was going.
A major target was the so-called "Mrs. Anthrax" who was accused of developing Iraqi biological weapons in violation of numerous international treaties. It was assumed that after her capture she would be charged with various crimes against humanity. However, this week, after holding her for over 2 and a half years, she and over two dozen other Iraqi leaders were released without charges:
Dec. 22, 2005 - Shortly before the Iraq war began in March 2003, I didn’t believe Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash when she insisted, in an interview, that Saddam Hussein’s regime was not developing biological weapons. Dubbed by Washington “Mrs. Anthrax” or “Chemical Sally,” Ammash was then Iraq’s most powerful woman. She’d been accused by U.S. investigators of heading a program, into the mid-'90s, that involved the attempted weaponization of anthrax, smallpox and botulin toxin.
On Monday, her Baghdad lawyer confirmed that Ammash was one of around two dozen Saddam-era officials released from jail without charges. A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad confirmed a number of so-called “high-value detainees” had been released because “they were not considered to be a security threat, and they were not wanted on charges under Iraqi law. So we no longer had any reason to continue detaining them.”
Ammash and another woman, Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha, a British-educated biological-weapons expert that American officials called “Dr. Germ,” were among Saddam’s most notorious scientists. They were believed to have run the Baathist regime’s biological-weapons programs. When Ammash was detained in early May 2003, I simply assumed she would go on trial for war crimes as one of the masterminds of a WMD program that was, after all, the reason why the U.S. and British governments had insisted on regime change in Baghdad.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10575149/site/newsweek/
It turns out she and the Iraqi government were the ones telling the truth about the non-existence of Iraqi biological weapons, not Colin Powell.
Another example of the fraud and propaganda that was foisted on the American people.
Originally posted by no1marauderThe sad thing is, is that despite this and the many other examples of fraud, propaganda, deception etc that have been piling up since ... oh, the start of W's first term, a lot of people are still blindly following him ...
Another example of the fraud and propaganda that was foisted on the American people.
