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2003-04-04 Iraq

Kurdish Farmers Head Home As Iraqis Abandon Villages

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Posted by Steve White 2003-04-04 01:46 am|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "ethnic Kurds say they want to go home"

I can't imagine how this works! Do they have old deeds to the property; will it be first-come-first-serve, like, OKLAHOMA; or will it be more like the native Americans - pitch a tee-pee where the spirit moves you.

Posted by becky 2003-04-04 06:57:16|| 2003-04-04 06:57:16|| Front Page Top

#2 We'll have to drive up from the south. Perhaps 4ID will have to be the one to do the job.

We don't want the Kurds to do the job, mainly because they haven't had the discipline and training our troops have had, both in being highly skilled warriors and in Geneva convention niceties. In fact, the better warrior one is, the more capable one becomes in adhering to the Geneva conventions.

In a sense, we'd be held indirectly responsible for any atrocities they'd commit. Thus, the delay in attacking Kirkuk.

Perhaps the plan is to take out Baghdad, show Saddam's head on a pike on national TV, and wait for the people's revolution in Kirkuk, using the Kurds to cordion off the city.

An interesting question is how to ensure that the Kurds stay in a post-war Iraq and participate. I'll have to put some thoughts into electrons and see what everyone thinks...

Posted by Ptah 2003-04-04 08:38:07|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-04-04 08:38:07|| Front Page Top

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