[lugsoul]

Don't believe the Kurds? Try the U.S. Army.

In a press conference Friday, Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, commander of land forces in Iraq, said that under the directive there "will be no militias inside of Iraq," but added that the Kurdish pesh merga forces "are a different story." "The pesh mergas fought with coalition forces and we look to leave them with some of their forces north of the green line." He was referring to the line that once divided the Kurds in two self-governing enclaves in the north from the Iraq that was under the control of Saddam Hussein.

[Peach]

Now, now. DOn't cherry pick from the article.

You've conveniently skipped this little tidbit which is just another nail in the coffin of your spin:

"A new report in the New Yorker magazine suggests that Iraqi intelligence has been in close touch with top officials in Osama bin Laden‘s al Qaeda group for years, and that the two organizations jointly run a terrorist organization that operates in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq."