Anyone who is well-read knows that Daddybush screwed the Kurds over BIG TIME during the Gulf War and afterwards.

Like daddy like DimSon - - isn't that sweet?


The Kurds, remember, guarded the nothern border of Iraq during 'w's invasion and the Kurds fought insurgents too. IN fact they did such a good job in their region that very few of our troops were needed up there and hardly any incidents of sabotage, suicide bombers, etc have occured there.

Keep in mind also that the Kurdish area has been autonomous (look it up, neo-cons) for a decade under the watchful protection of American forces patrolling the no-fly zones that used to be in place before 'w' screwed the pooch there. In fact the nothern no-fly zone was setup to protect the Kurds.


Since the Kurds have proven to be good allies - TWICE - it would be natural to hink the 'w' regime would reward them for their loyalty and give them at least the authority and autonomy they had before 'w' destroyed that country, right?

You would be wrong.

The 'w' regime promised the Kurds 2 positions as ministry heads - foreign affairs and defense. The Arabs squealed about the defense minister being a Kurd, so the 'w' regime CAVED IN and left the Kurds with only the foreign affairs ministry. Then they created a sinecure to put the other minister into - a no-power post as Deputy P.M.

This is one of at least three rectal intrusions the 'w' regeime has inflicted upon those ALLIES of ours.

The RESULT doesn't take much imagination, but obviously more than the no-nuts on the 'w' regime are working with:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kurdish parties warned Wednesday that they might bolt Iraq 's new government if Shiites gain too much power. In another challenge to the interim administration, saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline, forcing a 10 percent cut in electricity output.



http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?o...AC0A1EAA2F9359
But a day after the United Nations put aside differences over the Iraq war and gave unanimous support to the country's political transition, signs of potential problems with the handover of power surfaced. The two main Kurdish groups in northern Iraq have written to President Bush, threatening to disrupt Iraq's return to sovereignty.

They say the new U.N. resolution threatens Kurdish interests by failing to provide explicit assurances that the autonomy Kurdish groups have enjoyed for more than a decade will be respected when the country's new constitution is finally written. Leaders of Iraq's majority Shi'ite community have said such rights go too far toward accommodating a minority group.




http://www.agonist.org/archives/016226.html
June 07, 2004

Kurds Threaten Withdrawal

The main Kurdish political parties are threatening to pull out of Iraq's interim government unless a new United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq endorses Kurdish autonomy.

Masoud Barzani of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan made the threat in a publicly-released letter to President Bush.

The two Kurdish leaders said Kurdish autonomy in northern Iraq should be included in the new U.N. resolution or otherwise recognized as law-binding on the transitional government, both before and after elections.

Mr. Barzani and Mr. Talabani also expressed what they called their bitter disappointment that no Kurd was chosen to be either interim prime minister or president of Iraq.


Some information for this report provided by Reuters.