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Originally posted by jonesy+Sep 18 2004, 07:30 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (jonesy @ Sep 18 2004, 07:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-FlamesAllTheWay@Sep 17 2004, 04:50 PM
Well, Saddam was backed and supported by the USA in the war against Iran. This was also when he gassed the Kurds, no one raised a fuss then about that. At the end of the Gulf War, Iraqi's were encouraged to revolt by the Bush Sr. admin with promised American aid, but when they did they recieved no help from Bush Sr. Saddam moved south, crushed that revolt, then moved North and eliminated the northern one...
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That is patently false, why do you say things if you don't know them to be true? Did you not hear of the no fly zones over N and S Iraq which the AMERICANS invested their time and money to protect the Kurds from their own president who was systematically killing them? Note that there were no French or Russians helping with this, only the UK. [/b][/quote]
That was years after the Kurds were gassed. At the time Hussein gassed the Kurds, America was trying to strengthen relations with Saddam Hussein and did their best to portray him in a positive light and downplayed the attack on the Kurds.
BTW, the CIA is still not 100% sure that it wasn't the Iranians. Bodies exhumed show that the type of gas that was used was British manufactured and likely sold to Iran. It is still unknown how Hussein got it from Iran, if he did in fact.
http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=24474
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack
http://slate.msn.com/id/2078168
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/04/64679.html
http://www.democracynow.org/article....3/09/29/155243
The original NY times article is copied here:
http://www.truthout.com/docs_02/020303C.htm