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To: steve kammerer who wrote (70650)10/2/2003 1:49:17 AM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
How can you tell people to revolt while promising aid and then let them rot.
Good question. I found GHWB's behavour appalling.

It's not the first time the US has done it though.

I've read the Hungarians were promised aid before the 1956 revolt. I have not seen what I would consider good evidence of the claim, though.

The Cuban invaders at Bay of Pigs were promised US air cover. JFK cancelled it, but let the invasion go ahead to certain defeat.

The word is out on the street about this. Now we are no longer believed when we promise aid and protection.



To: steve kammerer who wrote (70650)10/2/2003 4:17:30 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
I agree with you. This is not making excuses, but explaining a course of cause and effect.

Saddam gassed those Kurdish villages not because he felt like "genocide" (otherwise he had more Kurds to kill elsewhere) but because they revolted as per requests of Bush I.

Yes, he is a monster. But not an irrational one. There is a reason why he attacked those villages and the blood is half on his hand and half on W's daddy.


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