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Thread #75098 Message #1317013
Posted By: Little Hawk
04-Nov-04 - 07:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: How the rest of the world voted
Subject: RE: BS: How the rest of the world voted
For instance, here is an article about the British occupation of Iraq in the 1920's and 30's and Britains use of bombing, gas, and chemical weapons on Iraqis, sanctioned by "Bomber" Harris and Winston Churchill:
a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939608,00.html">British terror bombing in Iraq in 1920 and afterwards
A brief quote from same: "An uprising of more than 100,000 armed tribesmen against the British occupation swept through Iraq in the summer of 1920. In went the RAF. It flew missions totalling 4,008 hours, dropped 97 tons of bombs and fired 183,861 rounds for the loss of nine men killed, seven wounded and 11 aircraft destroyed behind rebel lines. The rebellion was thwarted, with nearly 9,000 Iraqis killed."
History was simply repeating itself in 2003, only the Americans and British doing it this time. The Iraqis know this. They are not stupid and they have not forgotten.