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2006-11-16 Iraq

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Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-16 00:42|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One place our blood and treasure has made a real difference is in the North. We should be pouring aid and infrastructure into settled Kurdistan and enabling them to recover their homes they lost under Saddam's regime.

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One can only hope that our feckless State Dept. bureaucrats don't ultimately sell out the Kurds for some 'Greater Regional Paper Mache'.
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Posted by RD 2006-11-16 01:19|| 2006-11-16 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Amen, RD, amen.

Posted by .com 2006-11-16 03:01|| 2006-11-16 03:01|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the Kurds will eventually take advantage of the chaos of the triangle and stake themselves off a country proper. I don't think there will be anything Baghdad will be able to do about it in the end. I predict a lot of pissing and moaning, but nobody willing to go the whole way to stop them. The only reason they havent done so yet is they are still getting their shit together politically. They still seem quite weak in that respect.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-11-16 07:37|| 2006-11-16 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 The Kurds have a 100,000 men deployable at 24 hour notice. The Sunnis aren't batting in the same league.

Posted by phil_b 2006-11-16 08:15|| 2006-11-16 08:15|| Front Page Top

#5 the Kurds are the bright shining light in Iraq, probably due to the ten years they had under our no fly zone.

Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-11-16 19:42|| 2006-11-16 19:42|| Front Page Top

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