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I was talking about the Shia slaughter actually.
The Kurds got gases on Reagan/Bush Sr. watch.
The kurds actaully got self Autonomy with the No Fly Zone.
Saddam Hussein and Chemical Weapons
An good old Rummy met with Saddam about the same time they were using WMD on the Iranians.
Posted by ra @ 04/01/2003 11:27 PM EST
The Kurds problems go way, way back before President Bush, Clinton sat by and did nothing while they were being gassed as well.
Posted by Paul Mitchell @ 04/01/2003 10:47 PM EST
No this was the George Bush Sr. Slaughter I was talking about.
BBC NEWS Middle East Iraq's rich mosaic of people
In 1991, after the Gulf War, President Bush senior encouraged Iraqis to rise up against their leader. The opposition, including the Kurds of the north, believed this would mean the US would back a rebellion.
The Badr Brigades crossed the border into southern Iraq and Shia strongholds, including the holy city of Najaf on the Euphrates, rose in revolt. Lacking US support, it was brutally suppressed.
U.S. wary about promoting uprisings
President George H.W. Bush during the first Persian Gulf War in 1991, when he called on the Iraqi people to “take matters into their own hands.”
A subsequent insurrection by Iraqi Shiites and Kurds was put down with great ferocity and bloodshed by Hussein’s Republican Guard as the U.S. forces stood by, unwilling to intervene. Estimates of those killed ranged between 30,000 and 60,000.
Posted by ra @ 04/01/2003 02:11 PM EST
papa Bush didn't let them down Slick Willie and the UN did.
Posted by Blaino @ 04/01/2003 12:57 PM EST
