Week of 03/09

Discussion Questions and Vocab

    1. Why was important in the relationship between Iraq and the United States?

      1. Why did the United States often try to placate the situation in Iraq?

    2. What about the U.S-Iranian relationship incited doubt over bombing reports?

    3. How did Hussein cover his actions? How did he use the war as an excuse for the chemical bombings?

      1. What actions dissolved his cover?

    1. What did Talabani publically announce about Iraq and the Kurds?

    2. How did the idea of chemical weapons play an important role in the development of the Kurdish genocide? What about chemical weapons was more so unnerving to the American population than other threats?

    3. What’s Turkey’s role in all of this? Why does Turkey care?:

    4. Why was the United States reluctant to impose sanctions on Iraq? Is it ironic that the United States feared that sanctions would lessen its ability to influence Iraq?

    5. Why did the United States respond so quickly to the invasion of Kuwait? What U.S. interests lie there?

    6. Why is the Anfal campaign also referred to as “the persistent genocide”?

    7. Describe the current relationship between the United States and Iraq.

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Vocab to know:

    • Peshmerga

    • Topzawa detention center

    • Prevention of Genocide Act

    • Bureau for Intelligence and Research (INR)

    • Kurds

    • Al-Anfal Campaign

    • Anfalakan

    • Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali)

    • Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)

    • Saddam Hussein

    • Halabja

    • Implicated Victims

    • Amnesty International

    • Jalal Talabani

    • Peter Galbraith

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Period 2 - Iraq-Discussion Questions

Sophia Bisch, Nakiah Brown, Juliana Iturralde, Amanda Tam

    1. “Have no friends but the mountains”. From the book, who said this quote and why?

    2. Who are the Kurds? Where do they live? What do they want?

    3. What is the original meaning of “Anfal”? What was the misinterpretation?

    4. What is the meaning of the Commodity Credit Corporation? Who gained from this?

    5. What was the outside mentality towards the Kurds?

    6. Why couldn't the United States let Iraq win the Iraq-Iran war?

    7. What happened in Halabja and how did it impact America's interest in the Kurds?

    8. What genocidal tactics did Iraq use on the Kurds?

    9. Who was Galbraith? How were his actions similar to Lemkin's?

    10. Why did the U.S. continue to support Iraq despite knowledge of Hussein’s growing contribution to the genocide of the Kurds?

    11. Why did people view chemical warfare differently than normal warfare?

    12. How did organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International react to the Kurdish genocide?

Period 3 - Iraq