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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Actually, in the case of Lybia, the rebels asked for international help. I'm not aware that anyone was seriously rebelling inside Iraq when we took advantage of 9/11 to invade it as part of a neo-con plan laid out in the mid 1990s entitled "Project for the New American Century." [/quote]

The Kurds were not seriously rebelling and never asked for help, Wow! If you could hear some of the stories I heard while over there…

Go to the three Kurdish provinces in N. Iraq and say that.  The Kurds up there all love Americans and America.  I try to tell them that the typical American is about as knowledgeable as you are but they won't listen. 
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I know about the Kurds and frankly that's a different situation. The Kurds are an ethnic minority on the northern border whose population straddles three countries and who just want an independent state and no amount of rebelling on their part would ever have made a difference. This is different from the majority of the population rebelling against a dictator. Also, the PKK and its sympathizers aren't exactly the most savory characters around.
If you think the Kurds' interests are on par with those of the Lybian population, perhaps you would also argue that we should invade Israel to help the Palestinians achieve statehood or invade Spain to help the Basques, etc?[/quote]Plus we ourselves had an unsavory history of encouraging the Kurds to rebel against Saddam when it suited our interests and then withdrawing our support when it didn't and leaving the Kurds to be gassed by Saddam.  We most definitely did [i]not[/i] invade to help the Kurds.[/quote]

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