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US troops coming home? Obama to say on Wednesday

Boo Radley said:
Are you on drugs? I did no such thing. I said the people were were protecting were his people. And I pointed to the Kurds in the north.This is when it started.
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And, the Kurds aren't, "his people".

Later we added the south. There is nothing about any attacks outside the country being a concern.
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Hence the reason for the southern NFZ.
 
apdst said:
Yes. there is. Look at a map. There's one you can reference in your very own source material.
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You're leaping to a wrong conclusion. Show on that map were the NFZ extends outside the o****ry.
 
Boo Radley said:
Just because those countrie border with them doesn't mean they were why we had the NFZ. Com'on, this is silly. Only Iraq is in the NFZ.
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Only Iraq needed to be in the no fly zone. There was no danger of Kuwait, nor Saudi Arabia invading Iraq. :lamo
 
apdst said:
And, the Kurds aren't, "his people".



Hence the reason for the southern NFZ.
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Yes, protecting his people, in Iraq, Kurds in Iraq. Stop being silly.
 
apdst said:
Only Iraq needed to be in the no fly zone. There was no danger of Kuwait, nor Saudi Arabia invading Iraq. :lamo
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Show otherwise. Merely being a country that borders iraq is not evidence that the NFZ was in place for that reason. I've given you two links that say it was to protect the Iraqi people.
 
apdst said:
There are no Kurds living in the southern NFZ.
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In the northern one. Read for comprehension. Those in the south are not kurds, but still needed protect. Again, read.
 
Boo Radley said:
Show otherwise. Merely being a country that borders iraq is not evidence that the NFZ was in place for that reason. I've given you two links that say it was to protect the Iraqi people.
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And, to keep Saddam's army from invading Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
 
Source #3:

Meanwhile, Hussein used his remaining military forces to suppress rebellions by Shias in the south and Kurds in the north. Hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees fled to Turkey and Iran, and U.S., British, and French troops landed inside Iraq’s northern border to establish a Kurdish enclave with refugee camps to protect another 600,000 Kurds from Iraqi government reprisals. In addition, international forces set up “no-fly zones” in both northern and southern Iraq to ensure the safety of the Kurdish and Shia populations.

Persian Gulf War and Aftermath - History - Iraq - Middle East: embargo iraq, crisis iraq, power united, exchange rate, end year
 
justabubba said:
then tell us what they are and in which country they reside
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I already have: they live in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.

What's next? You're going to tell us that the Kurds living in Turkey are really Seljuk Turks and not actual Kurds?
 
apdst said:
And, to keep Saddam's army from invading Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
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Again, show that. I've posted three sources that don't mention that at all. Kicking them out of Kuwait had already done that.
 
apdst said:
I already have: they live in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.

What's next? You're going to tell us that the Kurds living in Turkey are really Seljuk Turks and not actual Kurds?
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Really, this is too stupid to comment on anymore.
 
Boo Radley said:
Again, show that. I've posted three sources that don't mention that at all. Kicking them out of Kuwait had already done that.
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All your sources mentioned that. It was called, "Operation Southern Focus", and was meant to create a buffer between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Try reading your own docs.
 
A no-fly zone in the north of Iraq was declared in March 1991 to protect Iraqi Kurds after Saddam Hussein's regime had put down their uprising.

A similar zone was established in 1992 in the south, after Iraq continued offensives against the Shia Muslims there.

British and US aircraft have patrolled these zones ever since, bombing air defences when Iraqi radar has locked onto the planes.

The northern no-fly zone was extended in 1996 following an Iraqi offensive in support of one of two Kurdish factions which were then fighting each other.

BBC News | Saddam's Iraq: Key events
 
Boo Radley said:
A no-fly zone in the north of Iraq was declared in March 1991 to protect Iraqi Kurds after Saddam Hussein's regime had put down their uprising.

A similar zone was established in 1992 in the south, after Iraq continued offensives against the Shia Muslims there.

British and US aircraft have patrolled these zones ever since, bombing air defences when Iraqi radar has locked onto the planes.

The northern no-fly zone was extended in 1996 following an Iraqi offensive in support of one of two Kurdish factions which were then fighting each other.

BBC News | Saddam's Iraq: Key events
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Who was it, exactly, that you think launched that offensive? The Iraq Army, perhaps????
 
apdst said:
All your sources mentioned that. It was called, "Operation Southern Focus", and was meant to create a buffer between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Try reading your own docs.
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Again, you misread:

Operation Southern Focus was a period in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq (called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in the United States) in which the military responses to violations of the southern Iraqi no-fly zones were increased, with more intensive bombing of air defense artillery installations and other military complexes. It also marked a period of increased intelligence gathering. The operation lasted from June 2002 until the beginning of the invasion in March 2003. It was intended to be a "softening up" period prior to invasion, degrading Iraq's air defense and communication abilities. Lieutenant General Michael Moseley revealed the operation's existence in mid-2003.

Operation Southern Focus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
apdst said:
Who was it, exactly, that you think launched that offensive? The Iraq Army, perhaps????
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On Kurds in Iraq. Not Kuwait in the South. Not Iran.
 
apdst said:
The Kurds aren't Iraqis. Pick up a book sometime.
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What's their country?


Are jews born and raised in America, not Americans? Really, this is stupid. I can't believe I've had to spend any time on this silliness.Is this some sort of debate tactic where the oponent is stupided into submission?
 
apdst said:
If those 100 AQ's still have the will to wage war, then after we leave their numbers will swell into the thousands.
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You could say that about terrorists in every country. We need to get a grip on our irrational fear, it is bankrupting this country can causing tens of thousands of needless deaths.
 
ptif219 said:
You support Spend Spend Spend Obama and you are against spending
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Problem is Obama refuses to listen to the generals. Obama has no expierence and does not understand the harm he is causing
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Please quote where I ever said that I agree with Obama continuing the Bush wars? There are many here though that dishonestly blame Obama for our debt yet support him in continuing to waste our money and servicemen's lives in 2 unfunded ME wars. You know anyone like that? :sun
 
ptif219 said:
So how many Taliban are there?
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A significant portion of the Afghans. You think we should kill them all before we leave?
 
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