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Originally Posted by The_Rorschach
You ignorant little shit. You want to go head to head with me? Lets see what's happened since the Genocide of '88 and how well off those people are today.
October 22, 1988 - Genocidal war waged upon Kurds by Iraq. Estimates of the total number of persons killed vary between 50,000 and 100,000,2 but may be as high as 182,000.
-figures per The Safe Haven in Northern Iraq, Helena Cook, 1995, p.112
March 21, 1995 - Nerve Agent used by Iraq against Kurdish population
March 18, 2003 - Tens of thousands fled towns and urban centers throughout northern Iraq fearing that Saddam Hussein would use chemical weapons in a war that seemed inevitable.
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Yeah they were doing real fucking well. Why don't you check out the headlines for the past few years here:
http://www.intellnet.org/news/?type=...ry&value=Kurds
They have been living in fear of an invasion from either the Turks of the Iraqi's since before Bush took office. |
Look you dumb fuck, do really think I didnt know about the campaigns against the Kurds? I know a FUCK of a lot more about the gassings than you probably do. The latest headline was right before the war began. Of fucking course they would flee!
Need I point out to you that the one before they fled the oncoming war was SEVEN YEARS AGO?
Asshole. I never fucking claimed Kurdistan was a paradise. I just said it wasn't as bad off you made it sound. ("struggle for mere existance")
And if you think that the Kurds have any reason to trust us, think again, asshole.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...0124_reza.html
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Well, [the Kurds] want to get out of Saddam's hands for sure. But they have not forgotten the U.S. betrayal of their fate in 1990 during the Gulf War. U.S. officials encouraged the Kurds to rebel and get rid of Saddam. They gave guaranties to the Kurds. When the Kurds started a rebellion, the U.S. had done another deal… The Kurds were left alone, and the Iraqi army attacked and crushed them. There was a massive and tragic exodus to the north involving hundreds of thousands of Kurds during a cold winter. Thousands of children and elderly people died on the road. That still is in their mind. The Iraqi army also massacred and arrested people—180,000 males between 15 and 60 simply disappeared… All these stories are alive in the mind of the people.
Here is what Kurdistan was like as of 2002:
http://www.krg.org/docs/articles/pop...ake-saddam.asp