[VOA]

My brother is in the 101st. He said that the Iraqi's are worthless but he was
impressed with the Kurds. He said that they are a great bunch of people.

That's about the same story given on NBC Nightly News a few Saturdays ago.
It really intrigues me as to why the Kurds seem to be reasonable Muslims...
but too many of the Sunnis and Shiites have just gone around the bend.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

We do have somewhat of a favorable history with them even though we pulled out of the last war before their business with Sadam was done. I guess it's the 12 years of flyovers to protect them that they remember. I think some of our specical forces guys befriended them before the war began and started an alliance. Will we be able to trust them 10 years from now? I don't know. Alliances change with time. But, they are an ally in a land that is not so friendly. As I was saying before, my brother thinks they're the ones who deserve the best deal out of all this.

[Cronos]

It really intrigues me as to why the Kurds seem to be reasonable Muslims...

The Kurds (indo-europeans) have an ethnic hatred for semites (arabs) -- sometimes ethnicity matters more than religion (witness during the crusades when Shia Persia directly or indirectly aided the Crusaders against the common enemy the Sunnis.