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2005-02-03 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2005-02-03 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Indeed.

The absurdity that is Iraq, that is a confabulation of Sykes-Picot, that saddles the Kurds' future with the stupidity and backward Sunnis, will eventually be addressed. And, in the end, only Partition or Independence will adequately and fairly resolve the matter.

Posted by .com 2005-02-03 12:09:16 AM|| 2005-02-03 12:09:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Somebody has to keep the Sunnis down.

Posted by someone 2005-02-03 12:19:55 AM|| 2005-02-03 12:19:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Lol! Let it be the other Arabs, the Shi'a. The Kurds have earned a bye, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-02-03 12:22:51 AM|| 2005-02-03 12:22:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The Kurd's are badasses (at least Saladin was) and I'm amazed the local Arab states can't get beyond their prejudices and get the Kurds fighting for them (sort of a Gurkha/Scots sort of thing).

Not only that the Kurds could then be used as leverage against neighbors with Kurdish populations who might be afraid of mixed kurdish sympathies.

A wiley Turk following such a pattern could have taken half of Northern Iraq and Iran while those two were bleeding each other white. They could have created a Kurdish state at the expense of others.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-02-03 10:57:24 AM|| [http://rjschwarz.com] 2005-02-03 10:57:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 self rule != independence.

Any Kurdish politician with an ounce of strategic sense would rather be autonomous inside a federal Iraq, than out on his own, landlocked, and surrounded by states none of whom could be counted on to be friendly and some of whom could be counted on to be deadly enemies.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-02-03 12:16:44 PM|| 2005-02-03 12:16:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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