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SULEIMANIYA, IRAQ – Suleimaniya is the most liberal city in Iraqi Kurdistan, partly because of its long-standing and deep ties to nearby Iran, one of the most culturally liberal countries in the Middle East. The Iraqi Kurds I met who have been to Iran wanted me to know – and they want you to know, as well – that the distance between the Iranian people and their hideous regime is galactic. I heard the same refrain over and over again: “Persians are just like us.” In other words, they are liberal, secular, pro-Western, and fed up with tyrants. “Iranians love America,” the Kurds told me. “They have nothing to do with Ahmadinejad.”
All the way back in 1973 Moula Mustafa Barzani, the famous and beloved leader of the anti-Baathist Kurdish resistance, said he wanted Iraqi Kurdistan to become the 51st American state. Nowhere did Barzani’s fierce campaign resonate more deeply than it did in Suleimaniya. Suli isn’t only the cultural capital of the region – its New York, if you will. It also is the capital of Kurdish nationalism. Saddam Hussein called it “The Head of the Snake.”
He answered with genocide. No one in Iraq experienced the full wrath of Saddam’s Black Arabism more than the Kurds. If the Kurds refused to morph themselves into loyal little Baathists, he would erase them from the face of the earth.
Somebody should tell this jackass. Once again, UN and human rights are just contradictions in terms. This is a nice quote:
"Under Saddam, if you agreed to forgo your basic right to freedom of expression and thought, you were physically more or less OK"
Ah. So if you debase yourself and act as a good little slave you were usually fine. Unless you were a Kurd, or a woman one of the Hussein boys happened to catch sight of.
Remember, this isnt some random idiot spouting off idiotic remarks. This the UN Director of Human Rights for Iraq. Unreal. We knew the UN was full of fascist apologists, but apparently they are also just outright fascist supporters.
On a slightly different topic, but still of interest to this group :
The Patriot Act passed 89-11 in the Senate, with Clinton, Kerry, Kennedy, Boxer, Obama, Reid, etc. voting in favor. They had 4 years to think about it too.
Yet, some fringe people still oppose it under phony guises. Here is an great article on how to use this to expose fifth-column anti-Americans in quick debate.