[AFPhys]

Listen, lugs, the one thing I was most surprised about during the course of the BASH was that it took so long for the Kurds+US to secure the "northern oil fields" and the environs thereabouts, and the areas linking the Tikrit-Baghdad area with northeastern Iraq. The Kurds clearly did NOT control that area, despite the pre-BASH** expectations of the press.

The no-fly zones certainly deterred Hussein's operations there, but that area was militarily controlled by Hussein in cooperation with the terrorists he installed and nourished there.


** BASH == Battle Against Saddumb Hussein

[lugsoul]

You can assert it all you want, but that doesn't make it true. Do you contend that we encountered ANY Iraqi troops to the NE of a line running roughly from Kirkuk to Arbil to Mosul? If you do, you're gonna have to put up some proof. As I'm sure you know, that part of the country is where the Ansar enclave existed. And, contrary to your assertions, that part of the country was not occupied and controlled by Baghdad.