Iraqi Yazidi MP Breaks Down in Parliament: ISIL is Exterminating my People

[F-22Raptor]

When will you guys join the Metric system Club?

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

When will you guys join the Metric system Club?

NEVER

Although it is easier.

 

[LeveragedBuyout]

Dude you havent learned that it was all propaganda back then along with WMD?
just tell us what was happening before US invaded Iraq, Iraq was a stable country. If US attacked Iraq on the pretext of Kurd genocide which no one ever heard of before US decided to attack Iraq ...

It takes a serious level of delusion, willful ignorance, or lack of critical thinking skills to make such an assertion.

New York Times, 1988 (15 years before the invasion):

U.S. ASSERTS IRAQ USED POISON GAS AGAINST THE KURDS - New York Times

Human Rights Watch, 1993 (10 years before the invasion):

HRW: Scientific
First: Soil Samples Taken from
Bomb Craters in Northern Iraq Reveal Nerve Gas - Even Four Years Later

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.™ Just say no to drugs.™

 

[xyxmt]

It takes a serious level of delusion, willful ignorance, or lack of critical thinking skills to make such an assertion.

New York Times, 1988 (15 years before the invasion):

U.S. ASSERTS IRAQ USED POISON GAS AGAINST THE KURDS - New York Times

Human Rights Watch, 1993 (10 years before the invasion):

HRW: Scientific
First: Soil Samples Taken from
Bomb Craters in Northern Iraq Reveal Nerve Gas - Even Four Years Later

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.™ Just say no to drugs.™

serious level of delusion [every desi uses this word in almost every post and most dont even know the meaning), willful ignorance and lack of critical thinking (how one uses critical thinking in this scenario is beyond me)

read what I said It happened long before the attack and hence no one heard of it, so you cannot use that excuse for attack after 20 years. This is like US getting mad about pearl harbor and decide to nuke Japan once more in 2014. But you are American...nuff said

 

[LeveragedBuyout]

serious level of delusion [every desi uses this word in almost every post and most dont even know the meaning), willful ignorance and lack of critical thinking (how one uses critical thinking in this scenario is beyond me)

read what I said It happened long before the attack and hence no one heard of it, so you cannot use that excuse for attack after 20 years. This is like US getting mad about pearl harbor and decide to nuke Japan once more in 2014. But you are American...nuff said

Let me help you (although it seems like you are content to keep digging your hole):

delusion (dɪˈluːʒən)
— n
1.a mistaken or misleading opinion, idea, belief, etc: he has delusionsof grandeur

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition

So by definition, you are delusional. Your ignorance of the word doesn't protect you from fitting its definition, it only reinforces the correctness of that description of you.

It makes sense that you don't understand how to use critical thinking, because you haven't learned how to do it yourself, yet.

critical thinking
noun
disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2014

the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion

Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon

You dismissed the idea of chemical weapons because you were told to dismiss it by the leadership to which you outsourced your thinking activities. If you possessed any measure of intellectual curiosity, you would have investigated for yourself to understand why it was so plausible that both intelligence agencies and political leaders thought it likely that Saddam Hussein possessed chemical weapons. He used it in the Iran-Iraq war, and he gassed his own people, so he had proven beyond doubt that at the very least, he had not long before possessed WMDs, and also that nothing would restrain him from using such weapons again.

That is a conclusion drawn based on evidence. Here's another example: You have demonstrated a belief that since something didn't happen in your lifetime, it might as well not have happened at all, and can thus be safely dismissed--so my educated guess is that you're probably a teenager. Hopefully, in high school, you will be taught how to draw upon evidence to make your own conclusions, and treat history and facts with more seriousness, since the past informs the present.

As far as being American, it is precisely because I live in the greatest country in the world, built by immigrants, that we look beyond national origins and judge individuals based on their own capabilities. Yes, I am American, and it doesn't matter to me where you came from. It only matters that you have demonstrated you still have much to learn.

 

[UKBengali]

@LeveragedBuyout :

It matters little what people thought.

They had no hard evidence and so started a war based on a hunch that has killed hundreds of thousands
and still thousands more getting killed every year.

 

[flamer84]

@LeveragedBuyout :

It matters little what people thought.

They had no hard evidence and so started a war based on a hunch that has killed hundreds of thousands
and still thousands more getting killed every year.

They gave them a wonderfull gift:freedom and democracy just like God gave mankind free will.What you do with freedom/free will it's up to the individual and he alone is responsible.

 

[LeveragedBuyout]

@LeveragedBuyout :

It matters little what people thought.

They had no hard evidence and so started a war based on a hunch that has killed hundreds of thousands
and still thousands more getting killed every year.

Don't get me wrong, I haven't stated any judgement about the war decision itself, I am only explaining the reasoning behind it, and reacting to xyxmt's ill advised comment that "If US attacked Iraq on the pretext of Kurd genocide which no one ever heard of before US decided to attack Iraq...."

 

[xyxmt]

Let me help you (although it seems like you are content to keep digging your hole):



So by definition, you are delusional. Your ignorance of the word doesn't protect you from fitting its definition, it only reinforces the correctness of that description of you.

It makes sense that you don't understand how to use critical thinking, because you haven't how to do it yourself, yet.



You dismissed the idea of chemical weapons because you were told to dismiss it by the leadership to which you outsourced your thinking activities. If you possessed any measure of intellectual curiosity, you would have investigated for yourself to understand why it was so plausible that both intelligence agencies and political leaders thought it likely that Saddam Hussein possessed chemical weapons. He used it in the Iran-Iraq war, and he gassed his own people, so he had proven beyond doubt that at the very least, he had not long before possessed WMDs, and also that nothing would restrain him from using such weapons again.

That is a conclusion drawn based on evidence. Here's another example: You have demonstrated a belief that since something didn't happen in your lifetime, it might as well not have happened at all, and can thus be safely dismissed--so my educated guess is that you're probably a teenager. Hopefully, in high school, you will be taught how to draw upon evidence to make your own conclusions, and treat history and facts with more seriousness, since the past informs the present.

As far as being American, it is precisely because I live in the greatest country in the world, built by immigrants, that we look beyond national origins and judge individuals based on their own capabilities. Yes, I am American, and it doesn't matter to me where you came from. It only matters that you have demonstrated you still have much to learn.

Let me help you (although it seems like you are content to keep digging your hole):



So by definition, you are delusional. Your ignorance of the word doesn't protect you from fitting its definition, it only reinforces the correctness of that description of you.

It makes sense that you don't understand how to use critical thinking, because you haven't how to do it yourself, yet.



You dismissed the idea of chemical weapons because you were told to dismiss it by the leadership to which you outsourced your thinking activities. If you possessed any measure of intellectual curiosity, you would have investigated for yourself to understand why it was so plausible that both intelligence agencies and political leaders thought it likely that Saddam Hussein possessed chemical weapons. He used it in the Iran-Iraq war, and he gassed his own people, so he had proven beyond doubt that at the very least, he had not long before possessed WMDs, and also that nothing would restrain him from using such weapons again.

That is a conclusion drawn based on evidence. Here's another example: You have demonstrated a belief that since something didn't happen in your lifetime, it might as well not have happened at all, and can thus be safely dismissed--so my educated guess is that you're probably a teenager. Hopefully, in high school, you will be taught how to draw upon evidence to make your own conclusions, and treat history and facts with more seriousness, since the past informs the present.

As far as being American, it is precisely because I live in the greatest country in the world, built by immigrants, that we look beyond national origins and judge individuals based on their own capabilities. Yes, I am American, and it doesn't matter to me where you came from. It only matters that you have demonstrated you still have much to learn.

you can act as a typical American and lie and lie and lie till people start to believe that if this moron is saying it so many times it must not be a lie. you sound like CNN and Fox news now, crap in the morning crap in the after and crap in the evening and eventually crap will smell like perfume. in a very distant future If Pakistan become a country in the position to destroy USA or any of the 50 countries it might become in the future, then they should nuke them for killing innocent civilian in Pakistan. we can cite a dumbest of the dumb American who once said so on PDF. We can kill 50 million American for 500 Pakistani killed by them and again we can cite a dumb american who got his world knowledge from FOX and CNN.

can you show us the map colin powel showed in UN where all the WMD site were mapped out, with a complete schedule of how a truck leaves one site and all the truck stops where driver drink their coffee, and a xray of the load taken from your high teach satellites showing even the VIN number of the truck and an Alquaida affiliates in the driver seat...freaking idiots, like leaders like public

 

[F-22Raptor]

Third airdrop was conducted today. A total of 52,000 meals and 10,600 gallons of water have been delivered so far.

 

[Aepsilons]

Third airdrop was conducted today. A total of 52,000 meals and 10,600 gallons of water have been delivered so far.

Positive news. Thank you for the update.

 

[UKBengali]

They gave them a wonderfull gift:freedom and democracy just like God gave mankind free will.What you do with freedom/free will it's up to the individual and he alone is responsible.

What a load of nonsense!

Giving democracy to a country that actually has 3 parts.

It could only mean domination by the majority Shia that are not trusted by the Arab Sunnis or the Kurds.

Us is 100% responsible for what is happening to Iraq.

 

[type93]

Us is 100% responsible for what is happening to Iraq.

Nope. Turkey is a 110% responsible for this as without turkey, there is no Isis and the resulting genocide and terrorism. When the world catches on to this, there will be a total embargo on trade, oil, food, travel and medicine to turkey unless the Turkish Republic pays reparations to completely rebuild Iraq and Syria, executes all of their leadership and dissolves the Turkish state into a bunch of smaller countries

 

[manlion]

Thousands of Yezidis Arrive to Safety through Kurdish Corridor

DUHOK, Kurdistan Region – Hospitals and clinics in Duhok have been receiving thousands of Kurdish-Yezidis stranded on Mount Shingal for a week, with 100 doctors joining the relief efforts as volunteers.

Since the start of US air strikes against the positions of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) on Friday, Peshmerga forces opened a safe corridor for the Yezidi families to reach the Kurdistan Region through Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), where the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) are in charge.

“The safe corridor is 10 kilometers long,” Ashti Kocher, the security chief in the city of Zakho in Duhok province, told Rudaw.

“Peshmerga forces are also on the mountain, helping the civilians descend the mountain and reach the many vehicles provided for them,” he said.

Meanwhile, some of the exhausted arrivals recounted what it was like to spend a week on the arid mountain, after fleeing the IS takeover of Shingal nine days ago.

“I was without water or food for five days,” a rescued woman told Rudaw. “My children were crying all the time.”

A teenage girl who arrived in Duhok on Saturday said it was the fear of the Islamist militants that drove them to the mountain refuge.

“We heard that ISIS was coming and so people ran in every dection,” she said. “That is all we heard – ‘ISIS is coming.’”

The Sunni jihadis, who are fighting in Syria where they have declared the city of Raqqa as the capital of their self-declared Islamic State, have especially targeted non-Muslims minorities, like Iraq’s Christians and Yezidis.

At least 60-70 of the Yezidis on the mountain are reported to have died, as well as reports of executions and abduction of women in the town of Shingal which the zealots captured more than a week ago.

There were reports that some 50,000 Yezidis had been stuck on the mountain, but the latest figures are that their numbers could have been as high as 100,000.

Asaad Hogir, among the 100 doctors who have rushed in as volunteers to help arriving refugees, which include not only Yezidis but also Christians and other minorities from Talafar, Tilkef, Zumar, Bashiqa. Wounded Peshmarga are also being treated.

According to Hogir, a great number of the doctors are pediatricians and some are dentists.

Hamza Raziki, the spokesperson for Duhok’s health department said that all hospitals and clinics in the province are open round the clock to receive and treat rescued refugees from Shingal.

Hundreds of families have also escaped the town of Makhmour at one of the main frontlines and are now settled at Erbil’s Sami Abdulrahman Park, where Erbil residents have rushed with milk, food and other necessities, especially for the desperate children in the group.

Scores of Shabak Kurds from the Nineveh plains have also joined the influx of refugees in the Kurdistan Region in the past week.

One Shabak refugee said that the Islamist militants have killed 20 members of their community in the past few days.

The majority of the rescued have now been settled in the cities of Duhok and Zakho.

The United Nations, US and Britain said they had dropped tons of food and water to the Yezidi refugees on the mountain over the past two days. But Dindar Zebari, representing the Kurdish government at the joint UN relief team, said they were still waiting for the Iraqi government to provide helicopters for more drops.

Meanwhile, two time bombs went off in Kirkuk’s Askari neighborhood and a third near the city’s Komari hospital injured 12 people.

 

[UKBengali]

Nope. Turkey is a 110% responsible for this as without turkey, there is no Isis and the resulting genocide and terrorism. When the world catches on to this, there will be a total embargo on trade, oil, food, travel and medicine to turkey unless the Turkish Republic pays reparations to completely rebuild Iraq and Syria, executes all of their leadership and dissolves the Turkish state into a bunch of smaller countries

Please explain this in more detail.

I do not trust Erdogan as he says some rhetoric against Jews but keeps his trade ties with them.