[Arkinsaw]

Iraq should be a Federal Republic. Ethnic cleansing should be reversed.

But without revenge massacres and not during the middle of fighting.

When the war is over Kurdish CIVILIANS should be able to go back to Kirkuk and reclaim their property. But there is no need for Kurdish military forces to enter Kirkuk.

[FreeTheHostages]

Hmm.

You know, I kinda agree with the Kurds on this one. Why are we nation-building. So many Kurds have died. They want their own land. These national boundaries in this part of the world are largely the result of British follies. We owe the Kurds so much. Why should we assume that we can, Kissinger-like, foresee the geopolitical future and know that it will cause problems with Iran necessarily? Why don't we instead to the Right thing. Give these people their freedom. After they've been gassed and all by Saddam, let them be free.

I wonder if that's not a good idea.

[July 4th]

I think some kind of federal relationship is likely anyhow, rather than some grand coalition government like is being tried in Afghanistan.

If we were to say to the Kurds, "make a state," it would have to be done in such a way that the Kurds in Turkey would not attempt to carve off their land to join the new state. You don't want to have a victory in Iraq to save the Kurds, and then have the Turkish army go and kill a few thousand to crush their rebellion.

[Destro]

''I cannot...believe American GIs will become the guardians of ethnic cleansing,'' he said.

Yea, but the Albanians managed to do it to the Serbs and Roma under the watchful (or not so watchful) eye of GIs in Kosovo.

U.S. in Talks on Allowing Turkey to Occupy a Kurdish Area in Iraq (Screwing the Kurds)

[Imperialist]

These islamic terrorists fight for palestine, but yet there are islamic kurds in the kurdistan region of iraq that are fighting for freedom from islamist tyranny???

[truth_seeker]

There is no historic basis for the present borders of Iraq.

To the victors should go the spoils, say for instance an independent Kurd nation, and split the rest between Jordan, Kuwait, and maybe even Iran.

Then leave and let them sort out the mess.

(Under the stipulation of no oil industry benefits for France, Germany or Russia IF they oppose toppling Saddam's brutal terrorist dictatorship.)

[SpookBrat]

FYI

[Archangelsk]

Well I guess what comes around, goes around. If it wasn't for the Soviets, Yugoslavia would have never existed. Now if it isn't for us, Iraq will become one big bloody mess of a civil war (and for some added fun, throw in the Turks, they have their own designs).