"Some of them were toddlers or infants, others were young children when nearly a dozen members of the family fled their Kurdish village in 1988 as Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein attacked the Kurds with bombs and chemical weapons."
Yet another account that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction...
To: octobersky
"most of the Tayips have become U.S. citizens, while a few are not yet prepared to take the language and history tests required for citizenship. "
What a great family to protect each other, appreciate what they now have, and assimilate into their new culture. Very different from the radicals of other cultures that expect our melting-pot culture to change for them.
2 posted on
01/29/2004 6:11:28 AM PST by
NorthGA
To: octobersky
I'm glad they made it to safety, and not surprised they are agitating for a separate nation for the Kurds. That's long been a dream of the Kurds, though I don't think Iraq should be broken up like that.
What I do NOT believe is that they've gotten a lot of racial hatred in this country. Of course we do have a few nuts but most Americans are NOT racists, as the Left viciously insists. These Kurds will get a better hearing if they don't succumb to exaggerating.
4 posted on
01/29/2004 8:49:46 AM PST by
WaterDragon
(GWB is The MAN!)
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