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Many stations last night had on in-depth gulf war history and prior history to Saddam gaining power in 1979. One thing that ABC News reported in a documentary was that the Kurds in Iraq were abandoned by us many times over the years.They live under democracy and have been screwed. Why was it that when the Kurds who were begging for helo cover to stay as an existing peaceful democracy were abandoned by us and rich Kuwait was totally given help.

Will the Kurds be considered this time around, will we utilize them while protecting them? They for many years have been trying to do what we claim to want to do with Iraq,live peacefully under a non dictatorship government.The Kurds of iraq are concerned about Turkey attacking them while we are attacking Iraq.

Also in this ABC News it was reported that the U.S. gave Turkey billions of dollars so we can use a patch of their land to attack Iraq. The Kurds are concerned. Does anyone care about them? What's the story on this? Was this ABC News report accurate?

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Support for War Spikes as Bush Sets a Deadline

Also please see post 79, any comments? knowledge?

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Will the Kurds be considered this time around, will we utilize them while protecting them?

This touches on one big reason why I'm so opposed to the idea of sticking around after this war's over. It's going to be the welfare syndrome taken abroad: The various ethnic groups are going to assume that we'll take care of them, that it's our job; they won't take full responsibility for securing their own future, and nothing we do will be enough for them. Talk about a nightmare waiting to happen.