Good article and do you still believe that Kurdistan wants to be a state within Iraq?


The incident came last month when crowds poured into the streets of Erbil, the Kurdish region's largest city, to celebrate the victory of the Iraqi national football team in the Asian Cup. It was inevitable that some people would raise the flag under which the Iraqi team had won the cup. However, that turned out to be something of a crime, at least in the eyes of the local authorities who ordered a crackdown. Over 50 youths were arrested, to be released shortly afterwards.

The incident was the latest illustration of the Kurdish region's rejection of the national flag. Earlier, in a ceremony in which the US-led coalition handed over the security of the region to local forces, not a single Iraqi flag was in evidence.

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I have said from the get go that the Kurds have no intention of being part of Iraq.

The incident was the latest illustration of the Kurdish region's rejection of the national flag.

Even under Saddam they made no bones about considering themselves a separate state. Without any central control of the government in place nobody can force them to do anything.

This is just what the Kurds have been waiting for, they have a chance now to get what has been denied them since 1917. It is gonna get ugly soon.

I think the Kurds make a good point. If it wasn't for the oil in their region, they wouldn't care what became of the Kurds.

After the war started I use to go to several Kurd sites and the talk was never a bout making Iraq a secure country. It was solely about how and when they would declare independence.