Saddam, hugs and kisses! Regards, Kurdish leader Talabani.

[LynnTheDem]

Funny thang how the US "media" not once mentioned the following FACTS about those "poor oppressed Kurds" Saddam "gassed", before bush's bullshit illegal immoral supreme crime war of aggression invasion & occupation.

I wonder why not. :sarcasm:

-Who made a surprise appearance in 1991 on Baghdad TV to hug and kiss Saddam Hussein?

Kurdish warlord and current Iraqi president Talabani.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4506507.stm

-Who danced & cheered in celebrations after Talabani hugged & kissed Saddam Hussein in 1991?

The Kurds.

It was just after the Kurds had risen against Saddam Hussein in the wake of his Kuwait adventure.

The Baghdad forces struck back. Almost the entire Kurdish population fled into the mountains and the peshmerga stayed behind to hold off the Iraqi army.

One night, Mr Talabani vanished and nobody would tell me where he'd gone. Then he suddenly appeared on Iraqi TV, kissing Saddam Hussein on the cheeks.

Far from feeling betrayed, his fighters danced and sang.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4506507.stm

-Who's killed the most Kurds?

The Kurds.

Kurdistan Observer; Sense of Frustration

For decades main Kurdish military-political groups, under the misleading title of parties, waged a self-destructing war against each other. It is not an exaggeration to state that this long fratricide cost the Kurds more lives than the murderous actions of Saddam, Turkey and Iran combined.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~kurdistan3/2-6-04-opinion-zorab-sense-of-frustration.html

-Who asked Saddam Hussein for help in 1996 to fight against Kurdish warlord Talabani and his Kurds?

Warlord -and Kurdish leader- Barzani.
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2005/4/independentstate130.htm

Iraq's New President Jalal Talabani: Ally of CIA, Iranian Intelligence and Saddam Hussein
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/07/1343226

Human Rights Reports; Kurdistan

...fighting among rival Kurdish political parties continued throughout the year, with clashes between the KDP and the PUK causing significant displacement of civilians. Both parties have been implicated in a wide array of abuses, including arbitrary arrest of suspected political opponents; torture and ill-treatment of detainees; evictions of supporters of rival parties, and extrajudicial executions of dissident political activists.

Fighting among Kurdish parties and between Turkish and Kurdish forces aggravated an already serious problem of internally displaced people. The U.N. Center for Human Settlement estimated that "more than one third of the population. . . are internally displaced persons," of whom over 500,000 are in need of assistance. Many have been expelled from their homes in northern Iraq because of presumed support for rival Kurdish parties, while others fled north after Iraq expelled them from their homes in the Kirkuk and Khanaqin areas.
http://www.hrw.org/worldreport/Mideast-05.htm

In Iraqi Kurdistan armed Kurdish political parties and Iraqi security forces were also responsible for a wide variety of human rights violations, including the arbitrary detention of suspected political opponents, torture, and extrajudicial executions.
http://www.hrw.org/worldreport99/mideast/iraq.html

The two Kurdish political parties controlling Iraqi Kurdistan detained prisoners of conscience, and armed political groups were reportedly responsible for abductions and killings.

http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/mde/iraq?Open

Kurds: 1991 slaughtering of Iraqis:
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1992/WR92/MEW1-02.htm

And now the Kurds are still fighting & killing each other, still playing America like a fiddle; and the Kurdish party America lists as a "terrorist organization" are still armed & telling the US to piss off, and still causing trouble between Iraq and Turkey & Iran. Who's now fighting this terrorist organization? Not America, who's busy appeasing them and trying to talk them into disarming (while the Kurds laugh their asses off at any such suggestion)...but Turkey & Iran.

But never mind; only Saddam the "Butcher of Baghdad/Worse Than Hitler" is to be demonized, so forget all the above facts.