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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (56251)	11/8/2002 2:35:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Kurds and the Shia rose against Saddam (as Bush 41 had urged them to do) and, shamefully, we let Saddam's Republican Guard crush the uprising. Exactly. Well, not exactly. You kind of forgot the rescue of the Kurdish refugees, the establishment of the northen no-fly zone, and the establishing the protectorate of the de-facto Kurdistan, supplied with revenues by the UN oil-for-food program. This last is administered directly, by the way, not through Baghdad, so the Kurds do not suffer from the shortages of food and medicines that Saddam creates in the part of Iraq he controls. Altogether, it hardly justifies saying, "we abandoned the Kurds"