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Ronald Wilson Reagan (391,528 views)
Ronald Wilson Reagan (391,528 views)
Donald Trump (390,855 views) [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]</sup> 18:17, 5 September 2019 (EDT)
Donald Trump (390,855 views) [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]</sup> 18:17, 5 September 2019 (EDT)
== The allegation that the Kurds didn't fight on the Allied side in WW2 is wrong ==
"The Kurds DID fight on the Allied side in WW2! They helped break the seize following the 1941 pro-Nazi Coup d’etat in Iraq and were part of the (pro-Allied) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Levies Iraq Levies]. By 1942 Kurds made up 25% of the force. By 1943, 10 of the 44 companies the Iraq Levies were Kurdish."<br>
Information obtained from the talk page of the article ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-says-little-as-his-gop-allies-condemn-turkeys-incursion-into-syria/2019/10/09/c46210f6-eaab-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html Trump downplays U.S. alliance with Syrian Kurds, saying ‘they didn’t help us in the Second World War’]''<br>
--[[User:James2|James2]] ([[User talk:James2|talk]]) 12:49, 10 October 2019 (EDT)