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reporter: it was another betrayal. but the kurds didn t give up on the u.s. american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations. reporter: in 2003, president george w. bush set out to do what his father had been afraid of, to go to baghdad and get rid of saddam hussein for good. the kurds welcomed american troops in iraq as liberators. it was the beginning of a partnership that would continue for a decade and prove to be critical to u.s. interests in the middle east. the alliance would become essential when the united states called on the kurds to tackle a new threat. isis. the most brutal terrorist group the world had ever faced. by 2014, the islamic extremists were carving out a murderous state in the middle east. they called it the caliphate.
helicopter gunships, we left them to be slaughtered. reporter: it was another betrayal. but the kurds didn t give up on the u.s. american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations. reporter: in 2003, president george w. bush set out to do what his father had been afraid of, to go to baghdad and get rid of saddam hussein for good. the kurds welcomed american troops in iraq as liberators. it was the beginning of a partnership that would continue for a decade and prove to be critical to u.s. interests in the middle east. the alliance would become essential when the united states called on the kurds to tackle a new threat. isis. the most brutal terrorist group the world had ever faced. by 2014, the islamic extremists were carving out a murderous
they find just over half of the voters, 51%, they want president trump not only impeached but removed from office. that s a new high for this poll. up from 42% in july. and then a time when the president needs all the allies he can get, he s infuriating republicans by allowing turkey to attack u.s. allies in syria, by saying the kurds didn t help us during world war rom roam 2. the kurds are fighting for their land, just so you understand. they re fighting for their land and as someone wrote in a very powerful article. they didn t help us in the second world war, normandy as an example. they mention names of different battles. okay. so you know a little history lesson. kurds didn t help us fight world war ii. for starters they didn t live in
semistable part we had any influence over. and that s gone. now, the kurds under attack without our help, will have no choice but to go to the assad regime and to russia for help. and our influence will be vanished. that can t be a good thing. the reason the state department officials were publicly warning about that, they thought they had a plan to deal with that, until they had the legs cut out from under them by their own boss, the president. president erdogan s responsibility for the killing that he is now what they are looking for there. when isis comes back, it s not going to be iran or assad, it will be american soldiers that have to go back in and fight them all over. the kurds didn t help us in normandy. but the president didn t serve in vietnam. there s a comment there.