Re: So, What IS a Fascist, anyway? Answer: nothing but a favorite swearword of leftists.

In case you didn't want to read the entire article above, here are
some cited numbers from Human Rights Watch, Al-Hayat, Refugees
International, and US. Committee for Refugees.  I challenge you to
document your counter claims re. American
atrocities:
> Human Rights Watch estimates that Saddam's 1987-1988 campaign of
> terror against the Kurds killed at least 50,000 and possibly as many
> as 100,000 Kurds.
> 
> The Iraqi regime used chemical agents to include mustard gas and nerve
> agents in attacks against at least 40 Kurdish villages between
> 1987-1988. The largest was the attack on Halabja which resulted in
> approximately 5,000 deaths.

> 2,000 Kurdish villages were destroyed during the campaign of terror. 
> According to Human Rights Watch, "senior Arab diplomats told the
> London-based Arabic daily newspaper al-Hayat in October [1991] that
> Iraqi leaders were privately acknowledging that 250,000 people were
> killed during the uprisings, with most of the casualties in the
> south." Refugees International reports that the "Oppressive government
> policies have led to the internal displacement of 900,000 Iraqis,
> primarily Kurds who have fled to the north to escape Saddam Hussein's
> Arabization campaigns (which involve forcing Kurds to renounce their
> Kurdish identity or lose their property) and Marsh Arabs, who fled the
> government's campaign to dry up the southern marshes for agricultural
> use. More than 200,000 Iraqis continue to live as refugees in Iran."
> 
> The U.S. Committee for Refugees, in 2002, estimated that nearly
> 100,000 Kurds, Assyrians and Turkomans had previously been expelled,
> by the regime, from the "central-government-controlled Kirkuk and
> surrounding districts in the oil-rich region bordering the Kurdish
> controlled north."
>