What is Howell Raines, NYT Executive Editor? And DAMN YOU, HRW!!!

[LynnTheDem]

I'm a wee bit bloody pissed off. Because I ran across a little gem of info tonight that I don't recall ever having seen NYT nor Human Rights Watch mention;

Memo To: Howell Raines, NYTimes executive editor
From: Jude Wanniski

In an e-mail I received a few days ago from Joost Hilterman, the lawyer for Human Rights Watch who for the last decade has been the most insistent in arguing Saddam committed genocide. There has been a conflict with our intelligence agencies on this matter, as they have acknowledged there has been no evidence that Saddam Hussein used WMD against his own people. It has been Hilterman’s position that when the regime ended and a search could begin, mass graves containing upward of 100,000 Iraqi Kurds would be found in mass graves.

He and Human Rights Watch originally believed they had been “gassed,” but now contend they were rounded up in the final months of the Iran-Iraq war, trucked to remote areas south of Kurdistan, machine-gunned to death, and buried in mass graves. As far as I know, these are the only alleged “acts of genocide” by the Baghdad government over the years, as Hilterman has acknowledged that the Iraqi Kurds who died at Halabja in March 1988 were caught between the warring Iraqi and Iranian armies.

http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2003/msg05044.html

WHY has NYT and ESPECIALLY HRW & THEIR LAWYER NEVER SAID THIS PUBLICLY??? Like the "incubator babies" LIE, had HRW said this publicly BEFORE bush's illegal invasion of Iraq a far larger majority of Americans would have been opposed, and maybe 100,000 Iraqis and tens of thousands of US and "coalition" troops wouldn't be dead/wounded.

HRW did tell bush he couldn't use "humanitarian intervention" as his excuse for invading Iraq...but WHY didn't HRW make their opinions above known BEFORE the invasion???!!

DAMN YOU, HRW and US M$M!!!

Jude Wanniski; founder and chairman of Polyconomics, Inc., is a world-renowned political economist whose 1978 book The Way the World Works was named one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th Century by the editors of the National Review.

It was during his tenure as Associate Editor of The Wall Street Journal – 1972 to 1978 – that he coined the phrase "Supply-side Economics"

Advisor to Ronald Reagan from 1978 to 1981

Voted for Duuuhbya in 2000.

http://www.polyconomics.com/staffbio.asp?authorid=6

So yeah, I believe Jude. He's no "librul".

And another from conservative Republican Jude;

To: Barbara Crossette, New York Times
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: The Gassing of Iraq’s Kurds

http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/12-14-00.html

[paineinthearse]

1. unbelievable

Every day a new revelation.

Every day a new lie.

[Swamp Rat]

2. The evidence is piling up... Rove, the "Lizard of Oz," cannot possibly

keep up with all the bad news coming out. The breaking point is coming. Perhaps the appointment of John Bolton will draw even more negative attention from abroad, as well as the assassination of journalists, etc.

On March 19th, we need to make this nation come to a grinding halt. We need to protest in the tens of millions. If we don't, we can kiss our collective asses good bye... think concentration camps and nuclear war in a few years. :grr: