Let's get rid of these hypocrites

[antennae at gn.apc.org]

I was talking today to someone who said they had seen Mr David Mellor
on the television talking about how concerned the British Government
are for the safety and well-being of the Kurdish refugees.


In early 1988 Mr Mellor was a junior minister at the Foreign Office.

On March 16th 1988, Saddam Hussein's air force bombed the Kurdish town
of Halabja with chemicals.  5,000 men, women and children died hideous
deaths.  The newspaper and TV coverage of this slaughter was worldwide.

We saw pictures of dead parents clutching little dead children, they had been
trying in vain to save them from the gas. 


As a parent myself, when I saw these pictures I cried.

What has this to do with Mr Mellor?  Well, not even one month after
the Halabja massacre, he was busy forecasting a bright future for
British industry in Iraq.

This must have been when, according to one news report I have seen,
he shook Saddam Hussein's hand in Baghdad.

I've never been able to understand how anyone - even a politician -
could look at pictures of dead women and babies one week and conduct
'business as usual' with their murderer the next.

To find now that this same politician is on television talking about
the plight of the Kurds fills me with more than disgust.

It is a sort of horror that we tolerate such people and indeed allow
them to rule us.

I would very much like some professional journalist to examine the record
and to bring out into the open the hypocrisy that shames us all.