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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