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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 748298" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p>here is some history on Hussien and Iraq that some people seem to have forgotten:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein's_Iraq" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein's_Iraq</a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">and one particular quote of interest</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Anfal_Campaign" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">Al-Anfal Campaign</span></a><span style="color: #000000">: In 1988, the Hussein regime began a campaign of extermination against the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_people" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">Kurdish people</span></a><span style="color: #000000"> living in Northern Iraq. This is known as the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfal_campaign" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">Anfal campaign</span></a><span style="color: #000000">. The campaign was mostly directed at *****e kurds (Faili Kurds) who sided with Iranians during the Iraq-Iran War. The attacks resulted in the death of at least 50,000 (some reports estimate as many as 100,000 people), many of them women and children. A team of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">Human Rights Watch</span></a><span style="color: #000000"> investigators determined, after analyzing eighteen tons of captured Iraqi documents, testing soil samples and carrying out interviews with more than 350 </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">witnesses</span></a><span style="color: #000000">, that the attacks on the Kurdish people were characterized by gross violations of human rights, including mass executions and disappearances of many tens of thousands of noncombatants, widespread use of chemical weapons including </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">Sarin</span></a><span style="color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">mustard gas</span></a><span style="color: #000000"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_agents" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">nerve agents</span></a><span style="color: #000000"> that killed thousands, the arbitrary imprisoning of tens of thousands of women, children, and elderly people for months in conditions of extreme </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprivation" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">deprivation</span></a><span style="color: #000000">, forced </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_migration" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">displacement</span></a><span style="color: #000000"> of hundreds of thousands of villagers after the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">demolition</span></a><span style="color: #000000"> of their homes, and the wholesale destruction of nearly two thousand villages along with their schools, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">mosques</span></a><span style="color: #000000">, farms, and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_station" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">power stations</span></a><span style="color: #000000">.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein's_Iraq#cite_note-Iraqi_Kurds-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">[2]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein's_Iraq#cite_note-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">[3]</span></a>"</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Again a reason people were willing to believe the intelligence was because Hussien had physically demonstrated the desire to acquire and use those weapons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 748298, member: 1912"] here is some history on Hussien and Iraq that some people seem to have forgotten: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein's_Iraq[/URL] [COLOR=blue]and one particular quote of interest[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]"[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Anfal_Campaign"][COLOR=#0645ad]Al-Anfal Campaign[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000]: In 1988, the Hussein regime began a campaign of extermination against the [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_people"][COLOR=#0645ad]Kurdish people[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000] living in Northern Iraq. This is known as the [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfal_campaign"][COLOR=#0645ad]Anfal campaign[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000]. The campaign was mostly directed at *****e kurds (Faili Kurds) who sided with Iranians during the Iraq-Iran War. The attacks resulted in the death of at least 50,000 (some reports estimate as many as 100,000 people), many of them women and children. A team of [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch"][COLOR=#0645ad]Human Rights Watch[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000] investigators determined, after analyzing eighteen tons of captured Iraqi documents, testing soil samples and carrying out interviews with more than 350 [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness"][COLOR=#0645ad]witnesses[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000], that the attacks on the Kurdish people were characterized by gross violations of human rights, including mass executions and disappearances of many tens of thousands of noncombatants, widespread use of chemical weapons including [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin"][COLOR=#0645ad]Sarin[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000], [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas"][COLOR=#0645ad]mustard gas[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000] and [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_agents"][COLOR=#0645ad]nerve agents[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000] that killed thousands, the arbitrary imprisoning of tens of thousands of women, children, and elderly people for months in conditions of extreme [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprivation"][COLOR=#0645ad]deprivation[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000], forced [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_migration"][COLOR=#0645ad]displacement[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000] of hundreds of thousands of villagers after the [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition"][COLOR=#0645ad]demolition[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000] of their homes, and the wholesale destruction of nearly two thousand villages along with their schools, [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque"][COLOR=#0645ad]mosques[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000], farms, and [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_station"][COLOR=#0645ad]power stations[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000].[/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein's_Iraq#cite_note-Iraqi_Kurds-1"][COLOR=#0645ad][2][/COLOR][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein's_Iraq#cite_note-2"][COLOR=#0645ad][3][/COLOR][/URL]"[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] Again a reason people were willing to believe the intelligence was because Hussien had physically demonstrated the desire to acquire and use those weapons. [/QUOTE]
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