[Cronos]

A point I made on the previous posting of this article - what Ramsey is recommending is what we did in 1991, and it didn't work. The UN didn't step up to the plate, Iraq slid into chaos, and in retaking control Saddam gassed the Kurds. This policy is the reason we had to do it all over again.

Note: Saddy gassed the Kurds in the 80s when he was our ally and we were still supplying him weapons to fight with the Iranis

[Billthedrill]

Note: Saddy gassed the Kurds in the 80s when he was our ally...

1988, actually, and at that point he was far from our ally. But I concede the point - what happened after 1991 involved machine guns and helicopters. I'm not sure the Kurds thought it a great deal better.