What do you do to an enemy bad enough to gas its own people?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
this was reported today 52 mins ago

Answer 1

To consider your question seriously, we need to look at some history. The Iraqis take easily to the use of poison gas because the British taught them how to do it in 1922.

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the British ruled over the Mandate. They created the fake state of Iraq, and set up their puppet king on the throne in Baghdad.

Now, they told him, you must tax your people in order to raise money to run your kingdom.

Up north, the Kurdish people did not consider themselves Iraqis, but proudly Kurds with a long history, not just an upstart puppet state like Iraq. The saw no reason to bow down to the puppet king in faraway Baghdad.

And they had no idea of what "taxes" means.

So the British Royal Flying Corps got to work. The military was eager to try out their latest poison gas, because unfortunetely the Great War had ended in 1918 so theere were no Germans to gas.

They learned the limitations of gas warfare in the mountains. The gas tended to roll downhill leaving the Kurds safely on the hilltops. But the Royal Flying Corps got the experimental trials of their weapon just as planned. And they taught the Iraqi government how to gas the Kurds into submission.

The man in charge of this genocide was Arthur Harris, who became known as "Bomber" Harris for his brutal use of air power, such as in the 1945 destruction of Dresden.

Winston Churchill, bloody-minded though he was, was shocked by the brutality of the gassing of the Kurds.

No need to be surprised today when you see that the Iraqis learned their lesson well and still make use of gas. Gassing was the means used to create their State of Iraq.

Answer 2

First of all, consider the source. I never fell into the habit of believing all of my government's propaganda, simply because my government employs good liars. And the ones working for the media are even better. The fact is, you don't know as much as you think you do about anything happening in other countries, and the media make a piss-poor telescope to see the world through.

In the second place, the US government has also "gassed its own people." Have you forgotten Waco already? The gas was noxious, though not poisonous, however it was flammable, and it was used to incinerate more than 80 people inside their own church. So... what DO you do with a government bad enough to do something like that?

Answer 3

The problem is that this is a fight between two groups of people in Iraq, the Sunni and the Shia. They do not consider each other to be their own people but rather consider them to be there enemy.

Answer 4

It's not up to the rest of the world to do anything about it.
The Iraquis know who is Al Qaida and who isn't. They all have access to guns, they could solve their own problem if they wanted to.The US bieng in Iraq is doing nothing to stop the violence, it is only serviing to prolong the violence.

Answer 5

Whatever you can, but these people hide behind the civilians. We can try and cut off their funding and increase our presence to prevent these attacks. But until we find them all and have the Iraqi's help, they will keep coming.

Answer 6

We can't do anything. This is Gods' domain. We can only give comfort to the victims. It may sound lame, but there is a universal justice. Anything we do will only be revenge.

Answer 7

i wouldnt raise the enemy to power in the first place even if he was a pro-american oil rich dictator.

Answer 8

If they weren't doing it there, they might be doing it in your hometown, that is the problem and that is why we are dealing with them overseas.