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Originally Posted by Predator
Are you saying then that Kurds don't matter? They were staging a revolt for years and even made several attempts. Look at Halabja and why it happened. There were attempts made on the life of the tyrannical dictator which prompted the Iraqi government to launch a chemical weapons attack against an entire town. Would you revolt against that? Risk everyone you know being gassed? Hell, why not just hide and hope that your father and brother aren't taken and killed next?
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No, you completely misunderstood my post. I was refuting wendycals claim that everyone in Iraq really wanted to revolt, but because the poor peasants had nothing but shovels to fight with, they couldnt. So I used the example of the kurds to say that the rest of the iraqi citizens certainly had the means, what they lacked was the desire.
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