Seanad debates
Wednesday, 2 April 2003
Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq: Statements.
Then we had the case at the road block at Najaf. We were told, in that wonderful American principle that Mr. Nixon gave to the world of "deniability", that they were responsible, that they did not stop and the soldiers fired warning shots. Now we know they did not because there was an embedded reporter from The Washington Post who has shown to the world that it was all lies. Seven or eight people, women and children, trying desperately to flee with all their worldly possessions, were blown to smithereens, and then they lie about it. It works because today I heard somebody on Joe Duffy's radio show say, "They shot a warning signal, they told them." They did not. Do not insult us with these lies.
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