And maybe some day it will turn out that “Saddam gassed his own people” actually meant that the Iranians used the gas at Halabja ?
There’s a new article over at the UK’s Observer that suggests that the widely-accepted notion that Saddam was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis may have been a significant exaggeration.
Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that ‘400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves’ is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.
The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq’s mass graves.
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