Dude, your ignorance makes my head hurt. Seriously just go fucking google something like Chemical Ali and read it for yourself.
I got this off the BBC, so you can't try to say it's from some crappy american news site. I figured i should show you myself since i doubt you would take the time to educate yourself.The Anfal campaign, under al-Majid's command, resulted in the murder and "disappearance" of some 100,000 noncombatants, the use of chemical weapons against noncombatants in dozens of locations, and the near-total destruction of family and community assets, including agricultural and other infrastructure, throughout the rural Kurdish areas
Words from his own mouth."I will kill them all with chemical weapons! Who is going to say anything? The international community? Fuck them! the international community, and those who listen to them!
"I will not attack them with chemicals just one day, but I will continue to attack them with chemicals for fifteen days."
I apologize for this 'wall-o-text' but as i said, they had Chemical weapons, they used them on their own freaking people, and i highly doubt that they just up and got rid of them. Since when did hussein take orders from anyone? He's on trial and still considers himself to be a god.]The campaign, which began in 1986 and lasted until 1989, is said to have cost the lives of 182,000 civilian Kurds, according to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The campaign was headed by Ali Hasan al-Majid, a cousin of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The Anfal campaign included the use of firing squads, mass deportation (Arabization), rockets fired from helicopter gunships and chemical weapons, which earned al-Majid the sobruquet "Chemical Ali". Some allege the Halabja poison gas attack to have been part of Al-Anfal, which is thought to have killed about 5,000 civilians, including babies and children (though the incident occurred in the midst of fighting during the Iraq-Iran War). The al-Anfal campaign also involved the alleged killing and torturing of Kurdish families
And just one last thing since you seem to be so hung up on the catch phrase 'WMD'
I don't care what term they want to give, the whole 'weapons of mass destruction' thing was nothing more than a semantical ploy to try and get people to back the coalition, outside of that it means not a god damn thing.Mustard Gas (Yperite) was first used by the German Army in September 1917. The most lethal of all the poisonous chemicals used during the war, it was almost odourless and took twelve hours to take effect. Yperite was so powerful that only small amounts had to be added to high explosive shells to be effective. Once in the soil, mustard gas remained active for several weeks.
The skin of victims of mustard gas blistered, the eyes became very sore and they began to vomit. Mustard gas caused internal and external bleeding and attacked the bronchial tubes, stripping off the mucous membrane. This was extremely painful and most soldiers had to be strapped to their beds. It usually took a person four or five weeks to die of mustard gas poisoning
You say mustard gas isn't a 'weapon of mass destruction?' Maybe not according to G.W. Bush, but in my opinion which i don't care if you agree with or not. It's pretty fucking devastating.
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