a lemken. >> an unguided missile. >> peter was mad. again, maybe not the best spokesman for his cause but a true humanitarian. he went to northern iraq and noticed in 1987 that all of the occurredish villages he visited or seen from afar three years before no longer existed. they were systematically bulldozed. there was nothing but rubble. >> where were the villages? >> in northern iraq. there are kurds in turkey. well outside of northern iraq. there was a kurdish rebellion and insurgency. some of the rebels partnered with iran. saddam's decision was to deal with the security threat that he faced with genocide. so he made no discrimination between soldiers and nonsoldiers. rounded people up in mass. a number of villages were targeted with these terrible poisons which literally made the sort of skin peel and singe. the most ghastly form of death. >> peter did something that not many have ever done, work for a senate committee. >> he did a couple of things. one, he decided that -- we weren't going to intervene to stop saddam. that was no