From: jan.vindheim@gmail.com   
      
   Pete Bayle  wrote:   
      
   > jan.vindheim@gmail.com (Jan  Bojer Vindheim) wrote in message   
      
   > > The kurds offered their selfruled enclave as a launching point for the   
   > > inasion and have faitfully supported the various corrupt nitwits  (Alawi   
   > > et al) placed in "power" by the occupying power(s). Kurd leaders Barzani   
   > > and Talabani have even been busy restrainign their own followers from   
   > > demanding to full selfdetermination, return to kurdish control of the   
   > > arabized (by Saddam) cities of Kirkuk and Mosul etc.   
   > >   
   > > Now The US State Department  - big surprise, eh? - is denying any   
   > > commitment to comtinued selfrule in the kurdish north.   
   > >   
   > > Kurds once again used as a tool by big powers in the middle east, and   
   > > ending up with less than they had.   
   >   
   > LOL. You crack me up.   
   >   
   > You want support for an independent Kurdistan count me in.   
   good.   
   Were you there in the picket lines with me   
   when Rumsfeld and Bush were supporting Saddams chemical war   
   on the kurds (and the Iranianis)?   
      
   > You tell me the Kurds aren't better off now   
   > than they were before the   
   > toppling of Saddam I don't believe.   
      
   Too bad when facts get in the way of your beliefs, eh?   
      
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