23 Feb
2003
23 Feb
'03
12:43 a.m.
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Lawrence Walker wrote:
As for wars on it's neighbors, Iraq was a client
state of
the US in it's war with Iran, and the Kurds were gassed
with supplies from the US.
And there is now controversy over whether Iraq purposely gassed the kurds
of if they were unfortunate "collateral damage" as Iraqi forces attacked
Iranian ones.
Kuwait likely wouldn't have
happened if Saddam hadn't got suckered by Albright into
^^^^^^^^
April Gillespie.
thinking the US wouldn't do anything if they
attacked
Kuwait over oil piracy issues, and the poor Shiites and
Kurds were suckered into thinking the US would support
them in a rebellion against Saddam to their tragic regret.
Here's a good lecture transcript on that:
http://www.cdi.org/adm/1124/transcript.html
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