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2010-07-17 Iraq

Barzani says Kurdistan nation should have its own state

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Posted by Steve White 2010-07-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Call me insensitive but maybe we should take a piece of Washington, Oregon, and Utah and combine them into Potatostan. And maybe have an East Potatostan in Maine.

It serves no practical purpose for Kurds to continue to agitate for a separate country any more than it would be for Quebec to do so. All it does is keeps the country divided and continues to cause friction with neighbors.

Yes, they are Kurds. But they are also Iraqis. I only hope that Barzani's comments were meant for internal consumption and were feeding on the emotions of the Kurds but this is not really productive (except for politicians who want that emotional appeal for votes, what is best be damned) for the long term interests of the Kurds.

It sends a message of "we really don't ever intend to integrate fully with the rest of Iraq and will always consider ourselves separate".

Posted by crosspatch 2010-07-17 01:24|| 2010-07-17 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Long overdue.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-07-17 04:10|| 2010-07-17 04:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Insensitve, I for one await the dawn of the Russet Empire.

Posted by Shipman 2010-07-17 10:36|| 2010-07-17 10:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I think it's more of the, "we are this tribe and you are that." No national identity and more of the same, "if you're not us, then you are an enemy," which relates back to the tribal, competition thing.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-17 10:47|| 2010-07-17 10:47|| Front Page Top

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