Friends in the Mountains

MSNBC ^ | 10/9/05 | By Babak Dehghanpisheh and Christopher Dickey

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For a brief spell last year, small groups of American soldiers fresh off the battlefields of Fallujah and Samarra got a chance to rest and relax at the Jiyan Hotel in the highlands of Iraq. They could swim laps, play tennis, shoot pool and generally just chill as they looked out on the dramatic snow-covered peaks that have always been the refuge of the Kurds. ("We have no friends but the mountains" is a well-known Kurdish proverb.) Kids mobbed the soldiers, asking for candy; adults began every conversation with "My friend." Indeed, there are few places anywhere in the world these days where American troops get a warmer welcome.

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Good news from Iraq. This is on the front page of MSNBC right now. Now, why dont we see stuff like this on regular TV news? well, peace and quiet doesnt get ratings now does it? Imagine how poweful some normal images from Iraq would be?

[LegendHasIt]

Interesting article... even I learned a couple of things I didn't know.

I wish "we" could actually give the Kurds their own country.... Heck, give them all of Iraq as far as I'm concerned.

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The Kurds have been our friends throughout the war. The don't have near the terrorist problems as in the rest of Iraq.

They are UNITED as a country, which can not be said about the rest of Iraq. The Shiite's and the Sunni's worry more about whose Imam is the best while their Imam's tell them to make war on each other and the U.S.

Meanwhile the Kurds get on with building a country that we can not seem to be supporting? What is wrong with the picture here? They are the model of what we want to happen in Iraq.

By supporting the Kurds we can still come out of this a winner even if the Sunni's and the Shiites don't get their acts together.

We may need to reconsider our priorities and possible outcomes.

[Just A Nobody]

They tried, but newsweAk just couldn't resist ...

They want these American occupiers, and really do think of them as liberators.

These presstitutes in the has been, lamestream media need to educate themselves. The "occupation" ended in June 2004. Idiots, all.

[Just A Nobody]

Thought you might find this article interesting.