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The rations, when they come, are always half what was promised. - The North is a protectorate, so unfortunately... They had been hurt harder under the sanctions than any other region, and while Oil-for-Food was providing some relief, it had helped sustain the very regime that oppressed them. -The Kurds have plenty of money to buy their own food, from that black market oil! Minister, if you would allow me... - The Kurdish conflict with Iraq goes back nearly a century. Saddam Hussein took it to a whole new level. Forced displacement, mass detention and torture. And then, when that didn't work, he resorted to land mines and cluster bombs, sarin gas and nerve agents, killing tens of thousands and crippling tens of thousands more. A reign of terror that included the worst single act of chemical genocide ever committed against a civilian population. Kurds are dying for simply being Kurdish.