PLATFORM : Why Preserve the Terrorists

Doesn’t the Administration remember in 1975, after the Algiers agreement between the Shah of Iran and Saddam Hussein--engineered by Henry Kissinger, that hundreds of thousands of Kurds were slaughtered? The atrocities of Hussein have been verified by human-rights organizations.

How could the Administration fail to see that the current genocide would be any different from the one that Saddam Hussein carried out in 1988 in which 5,000 Kurds died from chemical warfare and 100,000 refugees fled into Turkey and Iran, some of whom are still there sitting in camps. The question is why the U.S. government wants to preserve the international terrorist with his illegal government and party and let the fate of the Kurds and the Iraqi people in the south who consider themselves allies of the U.S. remain under the control of Saddam Hussein.

The U.S. government has a moral obligation to interfere when the fate of millions of lives hang in the balance. This is genocide in Iraq. The solution lies in: 1) continuing the humanitarian aid to prevent further starvation; 2) recognition of the Kurdish movement and its leaders and their desire for self-determination; 3) declaration of the Iraqi regime as illegal and the trial of Saddam Hussein as a war criminal, and 4) establishment of a dialogue with the Iraqi Democratic Front (composed of Kurdish groups opposed to Hussein) to form a government in Iraq where human rights are respected regardless of ethnic background.