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2017-10-22 Iraq

How a shocking reversal of fortunes unfolded in Kirkuk

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Posted by Fred 2017-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 Now, that's sad.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-22 02:39|| 2017-10-22 02:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I confess, I'm ambivalent. Almost everything I read tells me that the Kurds are good people, getting screwed, including by the US.... but several people who dealt with them in the various Iraq wars REALLY don't like or trust them. Plus you can say Peshmerga has nothing to do with the PKK (AKA Kommie Kurds), but then they said the same about Sinn Fein and the IRA ...

Posted by Unaviter Jusock4194 2017-10-22 11:50|| 2017-10-22 11:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Ever heard the expression "an enemy of my enemy", Unaviter Jusock4194? Or, maybe, you think Arabs, Turks, and Iranians are your friends?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-22 12:29|| 2017-10-22 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I have, g, but the saying is better expressed by "the enemy of my enemy is ...my enemy's enemy". Friendship doesn't enter into the equation..or are you saying Stalin was our "friend"?

Posted by UJ etc 2017-10-22 15:33|| 2017-10-22 15:33|| Front Page Top

#5 are you saying Stalin was our "friend"?

If he wasn't, why'd you sent him so much staff during WWII?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-22 17:15|| 2017-10-22 17:15|| Front Page Top

#6 I think that relationship falls under the heading "Let's you and him fight"

Posted by Don Vito Snavish5937 2017-10-22 18:22|| 2017-10-22 18:22|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm kind of saddened myself that the Kurds did this to themselves. Though I think the Talabani faction has GREATLY miscalculated the repercussions to themselves among the Kurdish people.

Posted by Charles 2017-10-22 19:27|| 2017-10-22 19:27|| Front Page Top

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