Posted by: zanshin, 2007-03-18 03:04

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Date: 2003-09
Colin Powell, visited the memorial for the victims of Saddam’s 1988 poison gas attack in Halabja. The words “Kurds” or “Kurdistan” didn’t part his lips even once.






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