Word: revoltingly
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...course it's all Bush's fault, since he "left them to die." It's all Bush's fault, since the "United States caused a revolt." Let's not look at the underlying causes of the revolt (i.e., Saddam's ruthless reign). It's all Bush's fault that we devastated the Iraqi army. Let's not put any blame on the man who invaded Kuwait, mutilated its people and failed to respond to our ample warnings...
...speak of the needless slaughter of Iraqi troops on the Basra road, but then say that the United States left just enough of Iraq's military intact to cause the revolt to fail, as if it were some conspiracy. Did we go too far or not far enough? Make up your mind. By the way, when you're dodging ground fire in an Apache helicopter, you don't circle enemy tanks until every soldier has left his vehicle. How much time does it take for an Iraqi soldier to leave his vehicle anyway...
Finally, and most troubling, came the damning question: Why did Bush the just warrior feel no qualms about bombing Iraq into a pre-industrial state and then refuse to support the revolt he had encouraged? It seems the Butcher of Baghdad can be left alone now that he is slaughtering Kurds and Iraqis, and not Kuwaitis...
...neighbors, who make no pretense of respect for Western values. Saddam Hussein, for example, knows how to deal with an unfriendly population within his country's borders. He gassed the rebellious Kurds in 1988 and is now continuing the genocide. Jordan's King Hussein took care of a Palestinian revolt in his country in 1970 by slaughtering thousands of Palestinians in a few weeks. Syria's Hafez al-Assad literally levelled the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled city of Hama, killing over 20,000 of his own citizens when fundamentalists challenged his dictatorship...
...Kurds rose up against the government in Turkey, but their revolt was soon crushed...