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To: eyedigress
The Halabja poison gas attack (Kurdish: کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە Kîmyabarana Helebce), also known as Halabja massacre or Bloody Friday,[1] was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War, when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government's forces in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Southern Kurdistan. The attack came within the scope of the Al-Anfal campaign against the Kurdish people in northern Iraq, as well as part of the Iraqi attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7; it took place just 48 hours after the fall of the town to the Iranian forces and Kurdish guerrillas. The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people, and injured around 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians;[1][2] thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack.[3] The incident, which has been officially defined as an act of genocide against the Kurdish people in Iraq,[4] was and still remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.[5]

Reagan did not respond.

49 posted on 09/06/2013 5:11:13 PM PDT by ecomcon
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To: ecomcon

He did not respond. You are correct.

http://www.issues2000.org/celeb/ronald_reagan_foreign_policy.htm


61 posted on 09/06/2013 5:40:57 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: ecomcon
Reagan did not respond.

The only imperative U.S. humanitarian intervention in the past thirty years was Rwanda. Clinton looked the other way. Clinton had no problem, however, using a faked Serbian atrocity as an excuse to intervene against a Christan nation on behalf of Hillary's pet Kosovar Muslims.

Similarly, Obama encourages his precious Muslim Brotherhood to fake a Syrian government chemical attack to give him a casus belli for installing the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Syria, which would result in the death, impoverishment or forced conversion of 2.5 million Syrian Christians.

Comparing the behavior of Clinton and Obama to that of Reagan as if we are somehow being hypocritical is laughable, but I got tired of reading your identical post on numerous threads.

The above may have the makings of another Pravda piece.

62 posted on 09/06/2013 5:46:52 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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