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Al ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria during an unannounced visit to Iraq, saying, “A lot of people are going to come around to my way of thinking.” Trump abruptly made the decision on Syria last week, against the advice of top aides and commanders, including Defense Secretary James Mattis, who resigned the next day. Trump said he had told his advisers “let’s get out of Syria,” but was then persuaded to stay, before deciding to bring the 2,000 troops home. “I think a lot of people are going to come around to my way of thinking. It’s time for us to start using our head,” the president told reporters at the Al Asad Air Base west of Baghdad where he and first lady Melania Trump spent three hours on the ground visiting U.S. troops. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tru...
Posted By: Steve Williams
Wednesday, December 26th 2018 at 2:44PM
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Did the word "Genocide" of the Kurds ever cross your mind when you read this paragraph from your report that you posted?
Ankara is threatening a new offensive in Syria. To date, U.S. forces in Syria have been seen as a stabilizing factor and have somewhat restrained Turkey’s actions against Syrian Kurdish forces.
Wednesday, December 26th 2018 at 8:18PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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With so many different ethnic groups living in one region and straddling several borders, the north central Kurdish area of the Middle East has been a continuous battle ground amongst and between the nation-states of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
https://thekurdishproject.org/history-and-...
Wednesday, December 26th 2018 at 9:38PM
Steve Williams
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I asked you a question Steve, Did the word "Genocide" of the Kurds ever cross your mind when you read this paragraph from your report that you posted?
Wednesday, December 26th 2018 at 11:13PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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"Did the word "Genocide" of the Kurds ever cross your mind" ….?
Kurds who....
…… the Republic of Turkey and USA labels......'terrorists'...?
…… since the WW1 have been associated with killing, the Uthmania and Armenians....?
…...since the WW1 have been associated with evil and cruel murders from Syria to Afghanistan.....?
Deacon …. Will USA...cause this 'COLOREDwhiteFAKE NEWS Opinon' of genocide...?
…….someday LEARNING the history of Africa Asia....SHOULD "cross your mind" .....
Thursday, December 27th 2018 at 8:33AM
robert powell
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Ron, genocide did/does not cross my mind but absolutely I do think, as Robert says, of the history of Africa-Asia in connection with this question of the Kurds.
Thursday, December 27th 2018 at 9:24AM
Steve Williams
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The Kurds or the Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group of the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a contiguous area spanning adjacent parts of southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. The Kurds are culturally, historically and linguistically classified as belonging to the Iranian peoples. Globally, the Kurds are estimated to number anywhere from a low of 30 million, to possibly as high as 45 million, by the Kurdish Institute of Paris, 2017 estimate.
After World War I, the newly declared Turkish Republic leader Kemal Atatürk repudiated the Treaty of Sèvres which proposed a referendum be conducted in the Kurdish homeland. As a result, conflict continued between the Turkish military and the Kurds. This conflict still exists today, as the Turkish Kurdistan area has been depopulated, thousands of villages have been destroyed and a state of martial law has been implemented.
Robert, here's a bit history I do remember, Kurdish Genocide - In March of 1988, Iranian troops and Kurdish guerrillas took control of the Iraqi military base in Halabja. Two days later, the Iraqi Air Force fired rockets and napalm into Halabja’s residential areas followed by a poison gas attack. Some 3,000-5,000 innocent civilian Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed and 10,000 or more severely injured. The Kurdish genocide was the most brutal gas attack since poison gas was outlawed after World War I.
READ MORE: https://thekurdishproject.org/history-and-...
Thursday, December 27th 2018 at 9:42AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Steve, I know that the genocide of the Kurds or the Kurdish people don't cross your mind. Here's a little bit more history for your review.
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s. They were tied together and shot so they fell into mass graves. Their towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in appalling conditions. Men and boys of ‘battle age’ were targeted and executed en masse. The campaign takes its name from Suratal-Anfal in the Qur’an. Al Anfal literally means the spoils (of war) and was used to describe the military campaign of extermination and looting commanded by Ali Hassan al-Majid. The Ba’athists misused what the Qur’an says. Anfal in the Qur’an does not refer to genocide, but the word was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Ba’athist regime for the systematic attacks against the Kurdish population. The campaign also targeted the villages of minority communities including Christians.
But the Kurdish genocide began decades before the Anfal and has claimed countless victims. The genocide perpetrated over decades began with the arabisation of villages around Kirkuk in 1963. It involved the deportation and disappearances of Faylee Kurds in the 1970s-80s, the murder of 8,000 male Barzanis in 1983, the use of chemical weapons in the late 1980s, most notably against Halabja, and finally the Anfal campaign of 1988. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people perished, families were torn apart, many still live with severe health problems. At the same time, 4,500 villages were razed to the ground between 1976 and 1988 undermining the potential of Iraqi Kurdistan's agricultural resources and destroying Kurdistan’s rural way of life and heritage.
READ MORE: Representation in the United States https://us.gov.krd/en/issues/anfal-campaig...
Thursday, December 27th 2018 at 9:57AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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US-Kurdish Relations - America’s consideration of the Kurdish question dates back to World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson and the Allied Nations supported the idea of an independent state for Kurds after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The Kurds were given a small homeland when the Treaty of Sevres, which broke up the Ottoman Empire, was signed on August 10th 1920. However, when the Treaty of Lausanne, which redrew the borders of Turkey, was signed in 1923, this small homeland ceased to exist. Thus began the long history of US-Kurdish relations.
READ MORE: https://thekurdishproject.org/kurdistan-ne...
Thursday, December 27th 2018 at 10:05AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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And so this long history is proof that U.S. troops should remain in Syria in 2019? You learned nothing from this little bit of history you believe you have now learned Ron.
Thursday, December 27th 2018 at 10:15AM
Steve Williams
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There are ways for the U.S. to pull out of anywhere and we must do it diplomatically this leadership was not followed at all. This action will draw Israel into this action and then you will see what happens.
Did you completely read those links with any understanding?
Do you support the genocide of the Kurdish people?
Do you support Trump throwing the Kurdish people up under the Bus?
Thursday, December 27th 2018 at 10:31AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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the deacon of russianBOT original LYIN, or just plain racistIgnorance states.....?
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"......The Kurds or the Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group of the Middle East...……..
Robert, here's a bit history I do remember....."
Thursday, December 27th 2018 at 9:42AM
Deacon Ron Gray
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…..NO you DO NOT know any African Asian History but you spew your slaveEducation and
The stereotypical Misconception of the enablers of COLORED'whiteRevisionistHistory'
…. LIKE most COLORED'blackSlaves of paganChristian Origin...youALL field hands. ALWAYS go
NO FURTHER in History....than the racistlyIgnorant….euroPEON versions; Colonialist COLORED'whiteOpinions'
……...ARE YOU aware.....The Kurdish History is ONE OF THE greatest of AhlalSunnah History...!
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AnNasir SalaahuDeen Yusuf ibn Ayyub was the GREATEST Kurd and many claim the GREATEST Sunni
Sultan of Africa Asia---Misr, Shams, Iraq, the Hejaz(from Turkey to Yemen)
...Salaahudeen led the Muslim victories over the euroPEON Crusaders' who had committed GENOCIDE in
Jerusaaleem in 12th Century....
…...AGAIN....for the 2,585,018,357th time.... STOP you Misinformation and euroPEON servitude....
Kurdistan has NEVER been an ethnic part of Iran or Persia....in FACT Kurdistan was the Muslim Nation
the racistlyEvil COLONIALIST...had to DESTROY after WW1
…...Syria(frenchCOLONIZED)...Iraq(englishCOLONIZED), Turkey, Iran BECAME nations AFTER WWI
out of the ashes of COLONIAL euroPEON genocide of Kurdistan...…..
……..BUT 2018....kurds are NOTHING in the eyes of Sunni or Shia Islaam…..
I do agree with trump$ette orders from The Republic of Turkey to leave the kurds to their next History
Friday, December 28th 2018 at 9:05AM
robert powell
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