03.19.03
The idiot prince will have his war
Interesting article. I hadn’t heard before that Halabja was actually a battlefield in the Iran-Iraq war, nor that it was in fact likely Iranian and not Iraqi chemical weapons which caused the Kurdish civilian deaths (not that the Iraqis weren’t lobbing chemical weapons around mind you — just not the right kind). The fact that motorcycle couriers and mosque loudspeakers could be used to defeat the US military is no particular surprise. Determined defenders of their own land can be exceptionally resourceful. And this article was written and published before the reports that a flotilla of small boats is sailing from Iraq into the gulf.Thinking of my little brother more and more as time goes on, and hoping he’ll be OK.
