> On the other hand, if you consider:
> -the fate of Iraqi soldiers on the 'Highway of Death' in the Gulf war
> -the lack of options of a regime with its back to the wall
> -the tiping of the civil war scales back towards balance
> -the precarious situation of black african migrants
It does seem that the big powers have dusted off the Desert Storm playbook, which included the failed "1991 Uprisings in Iraq":
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_uprisings_in_Iraq>