Who armed Saddam? 'An American company, Pfaulder Corporation of Rochester, New
York, supplied the Iraqis with a blueprint in 1975, enabling them to construct
their first chemical warfare plant. The plant was purchased in sections from
Italy, West Germany and East Germany and assembled in Iraq. It was located
at Akhashat in north-western Iraq, and the cost was around $50 million for
the plant and $30 million for the safety equipment. '
(The road to Halabja began here).
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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