Grateful Kurds thank U.S soldiers

http://www.tennessean.com/iraq/101/archives/04/04/49790154.shtml?Element_ID=49790154 ^ | 4/13/04 | Anita Wadhwani

[Mo1]

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[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I've communicated with a Royal Marine from the UK who was there and he agrees with you on the first part. I hope they are wrong.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

My brother was in Mosul. I think the people there are really poor and probably not very well educated. My brother hated arabs before he got there and his opinion has not changed after his deployment there especially after being shot at and when mortars land in the building he was working in.

[Iberian]

Maybe the bubble headed bleach-blonds were not on tonight??

[Reb Raider]

Yep, I teared up on this one too. There are so many wonderful stories to be told that need to be heard by Americans.

I know we all get frustrated when we feel the Iraqis aren't fighting enough for their freedom. I try to imagine loosing large parts of my family over a 30 yr. period and what that would do to your confidence and self worth. These people weren't allowed to show self iniative and it is going to take some time to change old ways of thinking. They see all the fighting going on here over going to Iraq and wonder if Kerry is elected what will happen. The Kurds had time to regain some freedom and set up a functional govt. thanks to the no fly zone and their own hard work.

I think if Bush is reelected and they have the assurance we will stay the course(unlike the U.N. which continues to look like the cowards they are)--that's when you will see more people willing to stand up to the thugs vying for power now.

[Cronos]

The Kurds are true friends and we should bend every effort towards ensuring that we remember it and that they are in a position to support us in every way possible in the Iraq region IMHO.

The Kurds were also the primary instigators and executors of Armenians during the Armenian genocide. The Kurdish land is originally Armenian Christian land robbed from Armenia and ethnically cleansed in a way and in such numbers as to make Saddam's crimes seem minor -- 1 million Armenians were clubbed, knived etc. to death, no gas here.

[Cronos]

Furthermore, they are NOT true friends. They need us to gain their independence and will turn on us as soon as that's done and they can set up their ownIslamic state.

[Cronos]

Fallujah is Sunni, not Kurdish. I am sure the Kurds would be happy to help, but I doubt the Sunnis will listen, since they are more like sworn enemies.

Kurds are an ETHNIC group, Sunnis are a RELIGIOUS group. Kurds are mostly Sunni Muslims but are not ARABS like the people in Fallujah. The Kurds are ethnically related to the Iranis. However, the Iranis are Shias (another RELIGIOUS group) as are many ARABs in Iraq (the Shia Arabs in south IRaq). There is antagonism between the Kurdish (Indo-Europeans) people in the north and the Arab (semitic) people in the south. There is antagonism between the Sunni Arabs and Shia Arabs in the south and central parts of Irq.

[Cronos]

Thank you Adam. It's great to hear some good news for a change. It sounds like Iraq could be a great country if we flatten most of the bad guys and turn the rest of the country over to our friends the Kurds!

These Kurds would slit the throats of the other ethnic groups in the south of the country. They are alsoMuslims and would kill the ChristianArabs in Baghdad and south irq like they slaughtered the Christian Armenians and Assyrians.

[Cronos]

Great stuff, we can never abandon them to the jihadists. Never.

oh, the Kurds are slammmies too and have proven themselves as jihadis while slaughteringChristians. They will do so again and will turn on us if we get in their way. These are no friends of ours.

[Cronos]

He said that the Iraqi's are worthless but he was impressed with the Kurds.

Kurds ARE Iraqis.

[Cronos]

My brother hated arabs before he got there and his opinion has not changed after his deployment there especially after being shot at and when mortars land in the building he was working in.

Coo, so he hates Arabs like General John Abizaid or baywatch babe Yasmeen Bleethe or Shannon Elizabeth?

[smith288]

These Kurds would slit the throats of the other ethnic groups in the south of the country. They are alsoMuslims and would kill the ChristianArabs in Baghdad and south irq like they slaughtered the Christian Armenians and Assyrians.

Please...spare us.

[guitfiddlist]

I think suspect residents of Fallujah should be moved enmasse, into camps in Kurdish territory. And, since these uprisings require many troops, occasional shortages of troops to defend the camps from the long-oppressed Kurds will naturally occur...

[Cronos]

Please.. spare us

WHy? So, you can ignore the fact that the Kurds are no better than Saddam and were perpetrators of the genocide that killed over a million ChristianArmenians and Assyrians? THat the land they call Kurdistan was originally ChristianArmenia and assyria and they occupied it after killing off the inhabitants? At the time of the Armenian genocide, the Kurds supplied a sizable portion of the manpower utilized by the Young Turk regime to exterminate the Armenians. In the process they filled the void left by the Armenians in eastern Turkey. Historic West Armenia, where no Armenians have resided since the genocide, has a majority of Kurds as its inhabitants at the end of the twentieth century. It is one of the compound ironies of the genocide that part of historic Armenia that is now the sovereign territory of Turkey is regarded more and more, from the demographic viewpoint, as the northern sector of an area called Kurdistan.

From Genocide.am
These are no friends of ours, they will turn on us as soon as they can and establish their ownIslamci talib land

[Cronos]

Spare me of this sickening idea that the Kurds are somehow our friends because they've discovered they can use us to form their ownIslamic land in land that should be Christian Armenian and Assyrian.

Some more links are:
500,000 Armenians Said To Have Perished. Washington Asked to Stop Slaughter of Christians by Turks and Kurds.
Or just google Armenian genocide Kurds

[GraniteStateConservative]

Well, at least they are nice when they screw us, unlike Chalabi who is very open about how he conned us.

[smith288]

History... I wont say there isnt still a sect of people in the Kurdish areas with those asperations but your broad brush strokes says alot to me. So far, the Kurdish people have managed to succeed in a self determining govt for 10 yrs which has led to a more secular society but still holding some of their traditions.

Do you prefer we carpet bomb these people for mistakes their ancestors did?

I guess Im unlike you in that I can give a people the benefit of the doubt that they wont do genocide again that they did 90 yrs ago (and without Americans breathing down their neck).

Do you have some sort of problem with America too? Afterall, we had slavery....should Americans not be trusted around black people because of this past?

[LoudRepublicangirl]

You know what I am talking about when I say Kurds in relation to their cultural and ethnic difference from the Iraqis. So my brother hates arabs and likes Kurds. Get over it. I think he deserves to voice his opinion after his service there.

[Cronos]

So my brother hates arabs and likes Kurds. Get over it. I think he deserves to voice his opinion after his service there.

True, everyone has a right to voice his opinion, if he hates muslims, I agree with him, if he hates ethnic arabs, he's wrong, we've got many fine upstanding chrsitian arabs here int he US who escaped from the mid east and many good christian arabs who remained.