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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: singletree who wrote (53695)	10/30/2008 4:11:31 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

True, Saddam was a WMD. And then he used WMD's against Iran and the Kurds. Gassed thousands of Kurds at Halabja. en.wikipedia.org

To: singletree who wrote (53695)	10/30/2008 4:15:20 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 224705

Yes..............there definitely were WMD The painful lesson of betrayal 20 Mart 2008 Persembe 18:55 Twenty years on, few Kurds forget that the United States and other Western countries stood idle while a chemical attack killed 5,000 Rafiq Laiq learned two difficult lessons as he and his family fled the chemical-gas attack Saddam Hussein's army launched on this town 20 years ago. The first was that tabun gas smells like apples, and can kill almost instantly. The second was that big, powerful friends like the United States have a tendency to help you only when it suits their interests. A memorial service held here yesterday in this traumatized town focused on the horrors witnessed over a three-day period between March 15 and 17, 1988, when the Iraqi army used tabun and other chemical gases to kill more than 5,000 people, punishing the town's Kurdish population for siding with the enemy in the final stages of Iraq's eight-year war with Iran. Thousands of villagers and visiting dignitaries, many of them dressed in black, filled the town's muddy streets yesterday for the unveiling of a monument depicting a father trying to shield his infant daughter from the effects of the gas with his own body. Iraqi Kurds attend a ceremony in Halabja commemorating the chemical gas attack that led to the deaths of 5,000 Kurdish villagers in 1988. Shwan Mohammed/AFP/Getty Images haberdiyarbakir.com