Goes back a bit further than that Archived Message Posted by Subhi on October 8, 2019, 8:56 pm, in reply to "UK shitting on the Kurds goes back half a century. " "Wing-Commander Arthur Harris (later Bomber Harris, head of wartime Bomber Command) was happy to emphasise that "The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means in casualties and damage. Within forty-five minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured." It was an easy matter to bomb and machine-gun the tribespeople because they had no means of defence or retaliation. Iraq and Kurdistan were also useful laboratories for new weapons; devices specifically developed by the Air Ministry for use against tribal villages. The ministry drew up a list of possible weapons, some of them the forerunners of napalm and air-to-ground missiles: Phosphorus bombs, war rockets, metal crowsfeet [to maim livestock] man- killing shrapnel, liquid fire, delay-action bombs. Many of these weapons were first used in Kurdistan" https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/churchill Message Thread: US abandons their Kurdish allies to Turkey... - Ken Waldron October 7, 2019, 1:12 pm I hope that the Kurds aren't surprised....nm - Keith-264 October 7, 2019, 1:17 pm Perfidious Albion as ever - Chris Rogers October 7, 2019, 1:35 pm Loved the Bloomberg host's inane comment... - Ken Waldron October 7, 2019, 1:54 pm Re: Loved the Bloomberg host's inane comment... - Chris Rogers October 7, 2019, 2:29 pm Re: Loved the Bloomberg host's inane comment... - Mary October 7, 2019, 2:33 pm Re: Loved the Bloomberg host's inane comment... - Mary October 7, 2019, 2:42 pm "ethnic Jews" eh?....nm - Keith-264 October 7, 2019, 7:33 pm FYI - Mary October 8, 2019, 9:16 am Re: FYI - AlanG October 8, 2019, 4:33 pm I'm an ethnic pleb and my wife is too....nm - Keith-264 October 8, 2019, 8:14 pm Do you mean that it's a euphemism - Keith-264 October 8, 2019, 8:12 pm Re: Do you mean that it's a euphemism - Thomas Newfield October 9, 2019, 11:54 am Re: Do you mean that it's a euphemism - Keith-264 October 9, 2019, 9:22 pm Now now. Have a cup o' tea. - Thomas Newfield October 9, 2019, 10:13 pm You got what you wanted - Keith-264 October 10, 2019, 6:58 pm LOL! - Thomas Newfield October 10, 2019, 10:04 pm You really are DTJ and I claim my £50....nm - Keith-264 October 11, 2019, 10:52 am Trump tweets... - Sinister Burt October 7, 2019, 5:06 pm Re: Trump tweets... - Mary October 7, 2019, 6:10 pm Re: Trump tweets... - Bluefool October 8, 2019, 8:56 am Re: US abandons their Kurdish allies to Turkey... - Poster123 October 7, 2019, 7:37 pm Funny how they seem to have forgotten the oilfields.. - David Macilwain October 8, 2019, 1:38 am Re: US abandons their Kurdish allies to Turkey... - Poster123 October 8, 2019, 6:39 am UK shitting on the Kurds goes back half a century. - johnlilburne October 8, 2019, 12:42 pm Goes back a bit further than that - Subhi October 8, 2019, 8:56 pm   Searching