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Originally Posted by Linkster
Lets see - the quote from the page I linked - "In 1979, the Shah of Iran was overthrown by the Ayatollah Khomeini, and in 1980 Iraq went to war against Iran. The Iraqi Kurds supported the Iranians, and toward the end of the war the Iraqi government retaliated with an extensive, devastatingly cruel campaign against the Kurds" - sounds like not only were they in the wrong part of Iraq - but gee - go figure - they were fighting against Iraq - Idiot!!!
I guess you werent around during the Vietnam war when we did exactly the same thing to Viet Cong civilians
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Well gee, let's look at the second part of the paragraph you so conveniently forgot to quote:
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Between February and August of 1988, hundreds of Kurdish villages in northern Iraq were totally destroyed, and as many as 200,000 Kurds were killed in the process. This was the period during which the Iraqi government used chemical weapons against Kurdish soldiers and civilians alike, causing an international uproar.
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Or let's look at that other link you posted:
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February, 1988. Saddam Hussein begins the "Anfal" campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq. The Iraq regime used chemical weapons against the Kurds killing over 100,000 civilians and destroying over 1,200 Kurdish villages. [8]
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Those civilians were civilians, meaning they were part of Iraq, and were not soldiers. Are you really so fucking stupid you can't see the difference between civilians and soldiers? The difference between attacking militant groups and gassing villages?
And just because groups in your country oppose you does not mean that they cease to be groups in your country. Much less does it mean that the civilians in the areas where these groups are dominant cease to be civilians in your country.
Oh, and as for you comment about the Vietnam war... That was the Vietnam war. We are now talking about what the US are doing in Iraq. There's a differnce.
Does it hurt to be as stupid as you are?
