Continuously using the Kurds as leverage, page 1

Despite the US and France claiming that they have supported a nation-state for the Kurds in the past, there was never any solid motive for the US or France in the creation of a nation-state run "Kurdistan", in fact these countries enjoyed the air force friendly fly zone to which is in the centre of surrounding countries Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq. The idea that Hussein is known for committing the greatest crime against humanity for gassing 5,000 Kurds (who were actually invading the upper North of Iraq at the time and took over an Iraqi city) fails in comparison to the greatest war crime committed in Hiroshima city where 140,000 civilians parished almost instantly and where effects of the blast had effected thousands more. Whose "war crime" was and in the most part is still ignored to this day. Think about that for a moment, 28 x the amount of life taken in upper Iraq. The hypocrisy of global powers is truley astoundng in my opinion.

The Kurds are an interesting people though, surrounded by natural mountainous borders effectively protecting them from utter extinction by those forces in the 4 countries they live in and harbouring one of richest oil preserves in the Middle East. For years these people have not only been oppressed by those countries mentioned, but due to the fact that Kurds have been killing Kurds for far longer due to the lack of a uniting national idenity, religious devisions, and being tribally divided must in my opinion, create greater questions that need to be asked.

Why are the Kurds fought off like a bad weed? Why if they are, do they insist on fighting each other and at the same time claim innoscense and cry for help against Iraq? Why do the Kurds no longer like to talk about Iran? What could have happened there that would silence them instead of giving them cause to fight back? Why did the US halt support of establishing Kurdistan as a nation-state?

Why is it when the time comes for someone to innocently blurt the phrase, "he gasses his own people" to which they mean, "he gassed the Kurds" does one take into account these questions and that chemical warefare has been the weapon of choice for these countries in past wars. If Iraq does not have WMD, if there are no massive factories to be found to create them, where did they get them during the Iran/Iraq war? The retaliation of Iraq (the Kurds were actually attacking Iraq unlike the citizens of Hiroshima miles away and across the Ocean) on the Kurds?

Watch a few documentaries by journalists who actually talk to the Kurds ("Dreaming a Nation: the Kurds" by Michael Ignatieff for starters) and you suddenly start asking yourself these questions instead of just spewing the same one line rhetoric.