spotelmo Messages: 273 Registered: February 2003 Location: nebraska
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Commando no. 448
Actually I found some of his arguements were massively undervalued by the opposition. Because geography doesn't rule the world. Yet I have to agree they were living in Iraq and he has responsibility over them. Yet the kurds had practically had their own state up there. And you see they can't really be called citizens of the Iraq government. They way he treated them they can't really be called citizens either. He made them Iraq's dead weight and something that had to be suppressed. So really he de-citizened them and made them dead to the rights of the Sunni populations. Like during the American civil war, could you call the Confederate troops Americans? There was no ammendment to the constitiution removing them during the war. Yet they couldn't really be called Americans.
As I said above basically they we non-citizens living in Iraq deographically.
they were still considered iraqi citizens as saddam exercised his control over them whenever possible. also, the international community did not and has not recognized a kurdish state(if they did, turkey would invade immediately)
as for the civil war, in the south they were considered citizens of the confederate states of america, in the north they were considered citizens of the united states of america. since the war was decided in favor of the north, they were always considered citizens of the united states of america and "criminals"
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