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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2829)10/5/2001 4:41:25 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You mean in '88 or so?

But there was killing too, and an intermittent war between the Iraqi government and Kurdish Democratic party of Iraq lasted 11 years from 1964 to 1975.

In that year a Kurdish leader, Mustafa Barzani, wrote to the US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, to ask for help as "our movement and people are being destroyed in an unbelievable way".

But Iraq had reached an agreement with the Shah of Iran, one of the US's most valuable allies in the region. Mr Kissinger no longer felt a compulsion to help and the Kurdish revolt collapsed.

Murderous persecution followed, culminating in perhaps one of Saddam Hussein's most notourious acts: the killing of more than 5,000 Kurds by mustard gas at Halabja in 1988. guardian.co.uk

The US tradition of selling the Kurds down the river was established long before the end of the gulf war. in 88, of course, we were cozily in bed with Saddam against Iran, for obscure reasons. I think it had something to do with the key-shaped cake.
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