Years before the first Gulf War , Saddam Hussein was slaughtering Iraq 's Kurds . Peter Galbraith was one of the first Westerners to see the effects of the killing . Watch as Galbraith describes his fight to end the slaughter » . He wrote a book about it called " The New Middle East : A History Of Oil And Its People " and he said that in his opinion there were two reasons why this happened. , he tried to invoke the U.N. Genocide Convention . The House killed his sanctions bill with backing from the Reagan White House .
Years before the first Gulf War , Saddam Hussein was slaughtering Iraq 's Kurds . Peter Galbraith was one of the first Westerners to see the effects of the killing . He wrote a book about it called " The New Middle East : A History Of Oil And Its People " and he said that in his opinion there were two reasons why this happened. , he tried to invoke the U.N. Genocide Convention . The House killed his sanctions bill with backing from the Reagan White House .