Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
Show me where the U.S. gave the blessing. I tried to open your site from, LOL, greenleft.org and it won't open. The other site "History News Network" explains on how Stephen Pelletiere implied that the Kurds may have been attacked by Iran but in all actuallity it was genocide created by Saddam:
The Kurdish minority of northern Iraq speaks an Indo-European language very different from the Semitic language of Arabic, and has long sought greater autonomy from Baghdad. Largely farmers and pastoralists, they practice a mystical, Sufi form of Islam that is distinctive in modern Iraq. During the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988, which Saddam Hussein launched against his neighbor, the Kurds sought Iranian support for their insurgency. The Baath regime, threatened, responded by destroying Kurdish villages in strategic zones, resorting to ethnic cleansing.
NOWHERE in that link does it suggest in any way that the U.S. gave its blessings as you implied.
Have a good one!:s4: