[jmc1969]

You might not know this, but the Kurds were freed from Saddam after the 1991 Gulf War.

After they were freed they fought bitterly for years.

[Gideon Reader]

You might not know this but the "no fly" zone prevented the Iraqi air force from attacking them from the air. However, they were continually beleagured by armor and infantry and other small unit actions hostile to them, after G.H.W.Bush and certainly Clinton's Nazi General Shalishkalvilli essentially abandoned them, in the pullout AFTER the Desert Storm punch up.

I perceive that you have a problem with the Kurds, and that is OK too, but they need to receive all the encouragement they can to do what the remainder of the corrupt sects of Iraq refuse to do.

The best to you each morning, or something. :~)