saddam husein invaded kuwait.ident george herbert walker bush goes to camp david had convened his war cabinet, comes back to the white house stops in front of my camera and says the arab world is united against saddam husein and i'm word about mr. president arab league -- leaders like king husein have embraced him. president bush barked at me and said i can read. what's your question? the next day before he sent american troops to war he writes me a letter saying he wasn't pleased with his answers to me and below his signature on his initials gb be your happy face. imagine the president of the united states taking a moment in history like that to apologize to the press and just recently sent me a retirement letter and said now about that bark i'm horrified. are you sure it wasn't just a little yelp? in any case, have you forgiven me dear and go? two apologies from the present of united states. c-span: other than that experience how many presents for that aware of what they had said to you and how many just didn't

when saddam husein and the baathists came to power they negotiating autonomy provisions. these were merely in name only and never implemented so the kurds rebelled again and many many thousands were killed. in 1980 iran and iraq ended up at war. it was perceived in baghdad that the kurds were supporting iran. it was part of an effort to create a security buffer on the iraq iranian border. as i said earlier almost 200,000 people is the result of that policy. in syria, there was the surely been movement which was a kurdish independence movement. many kurds who fled from turkey when iran was put down and adopt in syria. they are too the kurds suffered as a result of that baptist regime. their identity was denied. there were citizenship laws that were adopted in the kurds were denied citizenship rights. they were not provided identification cards so 300,000 kurds were essentially denied and a privilege of employment or education. they couldn't marry or hold property. they joined with other opposition forces and put forward the damascus declaration 2004 which is really the roo