[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Dont you think its time Bush start arming the Kurds. The Kurds all support us. The Shiites and Sunnis are anti America.

100% AGREE! Arm the Kurds and let them have Iraq! We give them a homeleand and they'll love us forever!

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I think that we are afraid to really arm the Kurds. It would tip the balance even more-we would have problems with the Turks who have been somewhat of an ally. I don't think our Gov wants to piss the Turks off by giving that much power to the Kurds.

[Southack]

"100% AGREE! Arm the Kurds and let them have Iraq! We give them a homeleand and they'll love us forever!"

Unlike the Sunnis and Shi'ites, the Kurds are smart enough to play along with the U.S. until after we leave. Once the U.S. has left Iraq years from now, the Kurds will declare their own independence and then have to fight off Turkey and any Iraqi government.

In the end, I suspect that the Kurds will prevail and win themselves their own nation in what is now Northern Iraq and Southern Turkey...and they will prevail because they are smart enough to wait, and because they are smart enough to know who their real enemy is. In the meantime, the Kurds should make fine U.S. allies while we are in the region.