" In Kirkuk, where Sunnis are fighting efforts by Kurds to control the city, tribes and political parties rallied against the visit. "How can we tolerate this?" said Salman Abdullah Al-Hamad, an Arab tribal leader in ...

  The problem is Shiites/Sunni's and Kurds offing each other ...   If we were fighting Al Qaida in Iraq, as we were supposed to do in Afghanistan, most of us wouldn't have a problem with the ...

Which side are we on? The Kurds have already effectively peeled off, it is illegal to display the Iraqi National Flag in their regions. Does anyone think that when all is said and done, Bagdad will allow the Kurds to sneak off with 40% of the OIL? ...

       the Kurds in the North would be more inclined to ally themselves with the Kurdish independence movement in Turkey; 6.        and this would effectively create the three ...

Better than the gassing of the Kurds ...     Here we go again: An ass kisser on VOA named INDIE Who comes to us from the town of Lindy I can almost feel her pain, it must be driving her insane To only be able to speak ...

The Iraqis do not yet have a law for sharing the nation's oil wealth among the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, a law that the Bush administration believes will trigger multinational energy companies to invest in exploration and production in Iraq. Also ...

Sorry 2 cents, but now you're lying The facts are Saddam did open Iraq again to UN weapons inspectors, who found none in 2001-2003 Saddam did use chemical weapons on the Iranians who he was at war with, and the Kurds who were helping ...

  Perhaps those who say the Kurds would allow, or welcome our troops there are correct ... if there is any part of Iraq we might stay, that would be it; in that scenario, we might be able to keep the other provinces in check a bit, or some sort of ...

Oh, how about the Kurds ... There was a headline thursday that US forces clashed with Kurds in Northern ...

Saddam used them against the Kurds in Halabja in 1988. He used them against Iranian troops during the Iran-Iraq ...

' He pointed out that the Kurdish Government wants to remind the United States of its ethical and legal duties to protect Iraq in general and the Kurds ... Security sources said that the suicide bomber detonated his car near a police checkpoint in the ...

' He pointed out that the Kurdish Government wants to remind the United States of its ethical and legal duties to protect Iraq in general and the Kurds ... Security sources said that the suicide bomber detonated his car near a police checkpoint in the ...

" The left getting a Jew hating Pres? I thought Emperor Shitforbrains wants to see all Jews die in the Rapture/ Armageddon thingie? As for dealing from a position of power, we have 200,000 US soldiers, plus 150,000 or so US ...

" The move threatens "to disrupt already fragile talks over a critical benchmark for peace: an agreement among the Sunni, Shiites and Kurds to share profits from the country's bountiful oil supply ... "White House officials ...

html     In other words, in order for Mr Hunt, who is a very smart buisness man to make a deal with only the Kurds and not the national government, he had to bet that Iraq would remain fractured between the various sects and racial ...