[Teacher317]

I'm not sure it's that simple. If they are freed from Saddam, it would be an excellent opportunity for the Kurds in the region, including inside Turkey, to work for an independent or autonomous state. Think 50 years ahead (after Hispanics have overwhelmed TX, NM, AZ, and Southern CA) and what our reaction will be to the calls for autonomy there.

The US has provided the planet with most of the very few examples where a protectorate (or even fully-owned territory) is given up freely without a fight... and in the Middle East, it's almost considered unconscionable to do so without bloodshed.

[Destro]

Since we fought a Balkan's war to break up ethnic majority or plurality states away form another country (Kosovo out of Yugoslavia) who are we to say it is wrong now?

Just to be on the safe side, teach your grandkids Spanish.

[Core_Conservative]

To tell you the truth, It wouldn't bother me at all to see NM, AZ, and CA to form a hispanic country - would serve those liberal idiots right - and the US would be able to cut income taxes in half - because we wouldn't have to support them and their socialist programs. (Now TX on the other hand - I'd fight for)

[EarlyBird]

People need to listen to Bush. I know it's a completely new concept that an American President means what he says, but woe unto them who don't believe him.

In his speech on Wednesday and in the Saturday radio address, Bush was adamant when he said that he would preserve the territorial integrity of Iraq. This was a message to both the Turks and the Kurds.

Watch the speech again, and note the body-language emphasis he placed on this statement.