<hypocrites, who never raised a banner of protest when Hussein was torturing thousands, and murdering the Kurds on a genocidal level of brutality.>
It was 1988 when Saddam broke the taboo against using chemical weapons. There was a Republican Administration in the White House. What was their response? They tut-tutted, and sat on their hands. And that non-response continued through the following Democratic Presidency, and continued into the next (Republican) Administration. What was Bush#2 doing about human rights inside Iraq, before 9/11. Zero, zip, nada, nothing. Total non-response.
What's happening now is, the Adminstration has decided to go to war (for reasons that have nothing at all to do with human rights), and they and their supporters are trotting out each and every plausible justification for war on Iraq. A shotgun approach. All this talk about human rights, is just for PR purposes.
Which ought to be clear, when you read how we are negotiating away Kurdish oil and Kurdish self-determination, in our bargaining with the Turks. It is very possible, that what happens to the Kurds if we allow the Turks into N. Iraq, is a lot like what happened when the Israilis allowed the Christian militias into the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon. Nobody has forgotten Sharon's role in that massacre, and nobody will forget or forgive Bush if we allow a Kurdish massacre. The Turks are quite capable of this. |
