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I won't answer your question on behalf of a_turk but if we fail to gurantee Turkish securty by allowing the creation of a "Kurdistan" I can gurantee you that there will be 150,000 Turks occupying Northern Iraq and not a damn thing we cold do about it. It's a catch 22. We need the Turks to rebuild Iraq and they need our money to rebuild their own economy. Their parliment and our State Department need to shut up and get this deal finished. Or we will have a very, very messy problem on our hands when the war starts.

97 posted on 03/01/2003 9:39:49 PM PST by Beck_isright (going to war without the French is like duck hunting without an accordian)

The US has no plans to create a Kurdistan. That is ludicrous. I am not sure just why we "need" Turkey to held rebuild Iraq, assuming it doesn't get so sulky as to close its borders to trade and transit in a post Saddam era. If Turkey did so, that would really be self defeating.