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by bigbillheck 1426 days ago
The US is perfectly fine with Kurdish genocide as long as it's Turkey doing it.
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The US was also fine with Iraq doing it.

When Iraq gassed a Kurdish village in 1988, the US actually blocked condemnation of Iraq in the UN Security Council and tried to redirect blame towards Iran.

The US only started making a big deal of Iraq's attacks on the Kurds years later, when Iraq had gone from being an ally to an enemy.