Originally posted by Slow-N-Low
If that's your criterion, then we should start bombing the good ol' USA right now. After all, the US military has a long history of testing its weapons on unsuspecting US citizens. Why aren't you interested in helping the citizens of Nevada who were poisoned by nuclear fallout, or the Tuskegee experiment victims? Why don't you care about Americans?
ok... welcome to 1945.... over here in the year 2003, genocide in iraq is a current issue.
in 1945 african americans weren't considered "people" by the general public. it sounds fucked up, but that was the way of the times. also, the atomic testing in los alamos
New Mexico was a step taken without knowing the consequences of the test. before the first test bomb was detonated no one knew about radioactive fallout. if you're gonna break an omlette you have to crack a couple eggs.
hussein knew full well exactly what would happen when he gassed several kurdish town in northern iraq. below is an excerpt from and article in the "The Kurdistan Observer" from july 1 2002, in which it states that the kurdish population are still suffereing from the initial gas attacks in 1987.
In 1987, Hussein intensified his fight against ethnic Kurds for their support of Iran during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, bulldozing some 4,000 villages and using a combination of nerve agents, mustard gas and possibly biological weapons on several towns.
On March 16, 1988, Mohammed was walking to a small plot of land just outside town to tend to his fruit trees and beehives when Iraqi jets dropped a variety of chemical weapons, which experts believe included mustard gas, sarin, VX nerve gas and aflatoxin dissolved in tear gas. Fortunately, nobody from Mohammed’s family perished, but he saw "people die from the chemical weapons, and we knew it would hurt us too."