America using blackmail to enlist Kurds in attack on Iraq

It is no secret that Bush and his advisors are trying their best to drum up support and preparing to attack Iraq in the near future. US vice president Dick Cheney's trip to the Middle East failed in convincing the Arab countries, at least publicly, to join America against Iraq. Unfortunately, now the Bush administration is trying to persuade the Kurds to join them instead. The Kurds, as well as other groups, often referred to as opposition groups by the Bush administration, are meeting in New York in the next few weeks to discuss the Iraqi issue. And, I might add, this meeting is fully financed by the State Department to ensure maximum attendance!

I would like for the Kurds to take note of what has inspired in Palestine and the carnage that Israel is committing against innocent civilians before endorsing the American agenda. While the Palestinians cannot elude the Israelis and stop them from obliterating their homes and business, Bush is trying to gather support for attacking Iraq. By now the whole world is aware of the fact that Bush had given Israel the "green light" to commit such atrocities against helpless and defenseless people.

While the Palestinians are fighting with stones, the Israelis are using American mighty machinery such as F-16 jet fighters, tanks and Black Hawk helicopters in counter attacking. The genocide of these poor Palestinians is done in front of our own eyes while the US is sitting by idly. Why? Because it is not of US "national interest" to stop Israelis' aggression and the mass murder of women and children.

The Bush administration will never be able to rectify Israeli's actions toward the Palestinians. A few weeks ago a reporter interviewed a Palestinians woman who lost loved ones said, " We will tech our children to take revenge of this and we will never ever forget this massacre." The same has happened to the Kurds in the past and the same WILL happen again in the future if we trust the Americans once more.

If Bush is truly a genuine person and cared about the Kurds, he could at least give us what is rightfully ours, which is our fair share of the oil-for-food proceeds. Now, one might ask; why should the Americans give us the money when the UN is physically and literally holding our share? My answer would simply be; the UN not only is greatly influenced by the Americans but controlled as well and therefore, the U.S is holding our money. One could almost make a case for "guilty by association" out of this arrangement. If that was not the case, then how can one explain the $5 billion worth of supplies that are put on hold because the US would not allow the shipment? Unquestionably, it is clear to see the connection here.

Furthermore, if the US truly perceives the Kurds as "friends" and concerned of our well-being, they should not allow Turkey, their "trusted" allies to squeeze the Kurds by closing the border whenever they please. The Turks, and the US, are well aware of the fact that the "illicit" oil trade between Turkey and the KDP is the ONLY source of income in which the Kurds are generating to run their affairs effectively. Without the funds generated from the oil sale, Kurdistan's economy will suffer immensely but that will not bother the Americans since it is their intention to have the Kurds cornered and have no choice but to reluctantly join their mission in going to "war" with Iraq.

This is not a new phenomenon as I have in the past written about this subject in an article called "Let's suffocate the Kurds" written on June 21, 2001. It was most a year ago when I wrote this article and not surprisingly, I was proven to be on target in assessing Turkey's position and intentions when it comes to dealing with the Kurds. Now America has joined Turkey with this conspiracy. This is what I said in my introduction to the article mentioned above:

It is not the first, and I am certain it will not be the last, that the Kurds get caught in the middle of some unfortunate act. For a long time Turkey has talked about bypassing Kurdistan in order to do business with Baghdad and, a long the way, leave the Kurds scrambling to find a solution. But when Turkey needs the Kurd's help, they don't hesitate to ask and most often they get their wish granted.

Loss of income generated from the trade with Turkey would undoubtedly create havoc in Kurdistan. It has become evident that Turkey is not concerned about the loss of income from this trade since the US would come to their rescue in the form of "aid" or "loans" that never gets paid back. Moreover, the disingenuous Americans have yet provided the Kurds with "loans" or "financial assistance" on the contrary, the Americans have been on the receiving end when dealing with our money that is generated from the Iraqi oil sales by way of suing "Iraqi people."

The Kurds have no need for "handouts" as most countries have become accustom to, but rather we want our money to be given to us. No one can refute the fact that Turkey does not want the Kurds to excel and prosper- I have become a believer that the US has adopted the same absurd and counterproductive policy!

I vehemently refuse to believe that the US is protecting the Kurds from Baghdad, as they constantly assert. Let's be sensible and realistic about this for a moment. Setting up the no-fly zone will never deter Baghdad from marching to Kurdistan in any given time if they truly wanted to take such action. Simply put, hasn't Sulaimania been OUT side of the no-fly zone for the past 12 years? It is not the Americans that are preventing the Iraqi army from moving in, but rather there are other factors that comes to play here. The Americans derive a great deal of pleasure by making people think and believe that they are their "saviors" even though it is far from the truth.

We don't need to go very far to see the true color of the Americans. For the past five years that I have made my home in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., I have gone to the airport to welcome the president of the KDP Mr. Massoud Barzani, whenever he made a trip to this area. I have yet to see the American government send a delegation to greet him in the airport as they do whenever other leaders comes to visit. Such treatment speaks for it self.

For another example to illustrate America's absurd attitudes toward the Kurds, I will refer to an article written by Jeffery Goldberg in the New Yorker last month. He said, "When the Kurds dispatched a senior official named Mohamoud Othman to Washington, no one would see him. Through the maneuvers of a sympathetic Washington Post correspondent named Jonathan Randal, Othman finally arranged a meeting with a low-level State Department official, but at the last moment the meeting was canceled."

Finally, I sincerely hope that the Kurds don't allow Bush to induce them into a conflict that would result in a disastrous outcome for us. Furthermore, I would like to tell my fellow Kurds to not become disillusioned and fall of the American trap. They know how fragile our Kurdish citizens are and they will capitalize on that very quickly. I need hardly remind anyone what has become of our people whenever America pulled out their "support" in the past. As the American proverb says, "Three strikes and you are out." This means there will only be three mistakes made then, and only then, will you completely exit the game and give up. America indeed has had three strikes with the Kurds and we should remind our selves of that everyday.

the UN not only is greatly influenced by the Americans but controlled as well and therefore, the U.S is holding our money.

Well, that right there says how much the author is aware of what's going on at the UN.

then how can one explain the $5 billion worth of supplies that are put on hold because the US would not allow the shipment?

Now, are these "supplies" that the Kurds have ordered? Or are they supplies that Saddam Hussein has ordered? I'm starting to smell Iraq at this point.

the mass murder of women and children

Well, as long as we're talking "guilty by association," what have the Kurds done to stop the suicide bombings by the Palis? Oh - wait - that's different. Never mind.

If that was not the case, then how can one explain the $5 billion worth of supplies that are put on hold because the US would not allow the shipment? Unquestionably, it is clear to see the connection here. <p Well at least we are not blowing them up in discos and on buses to get what we want, right?

A little injection of the truth into this post would help a lot.

It's as truthful as the Saudi plan for Iraq could be. The Saudi's have plans for everything.

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