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Show tPEQDPDnOS Did President Bush do (BtPDfflOiDE right thing for Kurds? nation's affairs. Sometimes I think we shouldn't interfere, but I sure do feel sorry for the Kurd people. I think they the past couple of weeks. Andrew Parker "Poorly, he just vacillates, he's vacillated on his aDoroach and that's not something By KRIS JOHNSON Staff Writer America embraced a patriotic spirit as we saw our young men and woman go to war during Operation Desert Storm. Within a month, we had won the war and Presi- needhelp." Carl Schoen- field "I'm very pleased with the way that he's handled it. I don't I know the full ' details of the Kurd's terrible plight, all I know is what I heard 1 A you can do with other countries because they really real-ly don't know what is going on. He's caused a lot of hardship unnecessarily. un-necessarily. He encouraged the Kurds to revolt and then kind of JX dent George Bush became an instant hero along with the U.S. military. Red, white and blue flags donned neighborhoods and businesses throughout the tint inn. Yftllow 1a iJ President Bush say Car1 endeid on TV yesterday and to me it sounds like he is very concerned and is trying to help them. ' ' France Childs "I think President Presi-dent Bush has done just about as well as he can under the circumstances. Until they get rid of Saddam Hussein, they're going to continue to have these problems. Saddam won't change, he wants to be in power and that's all there is to it. Until he goes, there is going to be a problem." Dwayne Walker "He's stood back and let Andrew Parker them get torn apart. Now he's going in to help after tens, possibly hundreds hun-dreds of thousands have been killed. If he would of acted two or three weeks ago, he could of alleviated a lot of the hardship and suffering." Michelle Taggert "I'm not proud of it myself and I think that if were really for independence for ribbons were tied Katheryn Field around everything from trees to car antennas. However, America isn't so proud anymore as we turn on our TVs and see hundreds of thousands of starving Kurds, who are dying because they have have been these people and we should support them in their efforts for stan-ding stan-ding up for what they believe in and being a democ- , racy, if that's what our overall world goal is. Obviously, the Kurds feel thev ''t 1 J' J handled it poorly, it's all politics, we shouldn't have ever gone over there unless he's obligated to complete com-plete the job. But he went over there and then he wanted to get out before he lost moved from their homes as a result of spill over from the war. Now, they have no where to go- The perishing men, women and children of fallen Iraa find them- haven't been sup- Michelle Tagged ported. They have been receiving aid, but the aid is minuscule to what they need. I think what they need is some kind of visual support from the president presi-dent for their moral." Kathyrn Field "I understand President Bush's position and he doesn't want to interfere in another 4 anybody. So con- Dwayne Walker sequently he more or less instigated the civil war there by telling them he would more or less back them, but he didn't. I think President Bush is looked look-ed at as vacillating his position on this issue with the rest of the world and it has made the U.S. look bad." selves amidst a France Childs mountain of starvation and unsanitary living conditions. The Clipper polled readers and asked them how they thought President Presi-dent Bush has handled the Persian Gulf crisis, after seeing the terrible plight of the Iraqi Kurds on TV for |