Opinion of the President

[TheTinMan]

Originally Posted by willy

In one 2 hour long attack on his own people with a toxic nerve gas (WMD) Saddam killed over 70,000 of his own people, intentionally, with purpose.

Willy, I think these stats are way off. The town was Halabja, which had a population of 70,000. There was an estimated 3200-5000 Iraqi's gassed. Still quite a tragedy but not 70,000 dead.

I am in no way supporting that whacko Saddam, just trying to keep the facts straight.


http://www.globalpolicy.org/security...02/0828gas.htm

http://www.kdp.pp.se/chemical.html